DLA078-0085  Transcription 

ONE CAMBRIDGE GATE,

REGENT’S PARK, N.W.1.

March 19th [1930]

Dear Mr de Laszlo

I saw your photograph in my paper this morning and I write to congratulate you on having been elected President of the R.B.A!^[1] –

Now I should very much like to know when it would be convenient for you to start work on

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my portrait [10330] – I would have written before had I not succumbed to a sharp attack of “flu” which has put me ‘out of action” for ten days. –

Awaiting your kind reply & with kind regards

Yours sincerely

Véronique Nettlefold

Editorial Note:

Vera de Villiers, née Johanna Véronique Waterston Graaff, married names Mrs Pieter Michiel Daneel, Mrs F. J. Nettlefold and Mrs Albert H. Coates (1891–1973); for biographical notes, see [10330].

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