DLA038-0056  Transcription 

12th October, 1937.

My dear Friend,

I have just received your registered letter and I thank you most heartily for sending the photographs. They are splendid, especially the one where I am sitting under the figure. It is a pity that those taken at Petworth are not more successful, but the light was certainly the reverse of helpful. I think to think [sic] of that visit and of the happy hour we spent amongst those art treasures.

Next time you write I must be very careful what I say to you in reply, as I see you make my private letters public good! But I am quite prepared to leave it to your tact and discretion.

I am sending you herewith a photograph which was taken in the studio, quite recently, surrounded by my present works and I look forward to reading your article in the Anglo-Hungarian Quarterly, which I am sure, coming from your pen, will be very interesting and attractive. I am glad to say I feel better daily and am at work as usual in my studio, trying to keep away from outside excitements.

I am interested to know that the Duchess of Atholl has been invited by Countess Apponyi to visit Budapest and I hope you were present at her lecture.^[1] She is very intelligent

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and a very old friend of ours. She used to be very beautiful. Do let me know how the lecture came off.

I do hope that by the time this letter reaches you you will have fully recovered from your indisposition. The world is very full of anxiety – let us hope that in the course of this year humanity will have become more Christian in spirit. Tell me how you are all in Hungary – all our mutual friends. I am still looking for good news from Dr. Legrady.^[2] Remember me to Dr. Kornis^[3] and we send our warmest greetings to your dear wife. Do let me hear from you soon again.

Dr. Laszlo Siklossy,

Pesti Hirlap,

Budapest.

Editorial Note:

Doctor László Siklóssy de Pernesz (1881–1951), Hungarian art critic; for biographical notes, see [111404].

SMDL

03/11/2024