DLA010-0004  Transcription

39, KENSINGTON PARK GARDENS,

W.

Feb. 22. [1912]

Dear Mr László

I write to ask you a great favour. I had the great pleasure of meeting you at Admiral Count Togo’s table at the dinner he gave at Claridges before his return to Japan & you very kindly asked me to come round & see the portrait you were painting of the Admiral [110587]. I was prevented at the time, & for so long, that I was afraid of disturbing you.

What I want to ask is if you could possibly let me have a photo of your Togo portrait. I will most

[Page 2]

gladly exchange some “Punch” sketch of mine for it if any of them takes your fancy, as I should very much value this, as Admiral Togo was a friend of my late father Sir E. J. Reed who designed some of their earliest battleships of the Japanese.^[1] Will you forgive my asking this, & tell me quite frankly if I ask an impossibility.

I am sending you a Private View ticket for my exhibition of “Punch” drawings next Tuesday at the Dudley Galleries & it would be a great pleasure to see you there.^[2] I hope you will look with a lenient eye on my drawings!!

[Page 3]

Our friend Wirgman has had a terrible loss, has he not.^[3] I am truly sorry for him.

Yours very sincerely & with profound admiration for your work

E:T: Reed

Editorial Note:

Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933), cartoonist and political caricaturist who contributed to Punch magazine

SMDL

04/11/2017