DLA016-0180 Translation

189 Queens Gate S.W.7.

My dear Friend,

I am writing you a line to let you know that as I remember, Leipnik^[1] some years ago was involved in some sort of newspaper scandal. I don’t remember the details, but I advise you to be careful. Perhaps you should write to Bárczy,^[2] who through the Press Department of the Prime Minister’s Office will surely be able to get some information.

[the following in French in the original] Un homme averti en vaut deux!^[3]

I hope that you will soon get over your little indisposition.

Perhaps during the Easter holidays I can come and visit you one evening.

With a friendly handshake,

Ruttkay

Editorial Note:

Vilmos Ruttkay de Felső-Ruttka (born 1869), commercial attaché at the Hungarian Embassy in London; for biographical notes, see [4856].

SMDL

02/01/2018

[1] Possibly Doctor Ferdinand L. Leipnik (b. 1869), Hungarian art historian and journalist. Leipnik was Manager of the Foreign Department at The Graphic. See related archive item DLA016-0181, letter from de László [possibly] to Vilmos Ruttkay de Ruttka, 20 April 1925.

[2] István Bárczy de Bárcziháza (1882-1952) [111342]

[3] “Forewarned is forearmed”