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Trading with the Enemy, Internment Material Folder 46, 165-0047

16/04/1918
Trading with the Enemy. Report to the President of the Board of Trade by the Committee appointed to advise the Board of Trade on matters arising under the Trading with the Enemy Act, 1916. Presented to Parliament by Command of his Majesty. London: Published by his Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. Pages missing – for the complete report, see DLA165-0048.
Trading with the Enemy, Internment Material Folder 46, 165-0048

16/04/1918
Trading with the Enemy. Report to the President of the Board of Trade by the Committee appointed to advise the Board of Trade on matters arising under the Trading with the Enemy Act, 1916. Presented to Parliament by Command of his Majesty. London: Published by his Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. DLA165-0047 is an incomplete version of the report.
Letter from Alfred Lys Baldry to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0002

Sender: Baldry, Alfred Lys (1858 - 1939)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
21/04/1918
Baldry thanks Lucy for the list of names, which he will add to a petition in an attempt to secure "some real mitigation" of the severity of de László's internment; Baldry describes de László as "too thin", "strained and anxious"
Letter from Alfred Lys Baldry to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0003

Sender: Baldry, Alfred Lys (1858 - 1939)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
17/05/1918
Baldry was delighted to hear of de László's move to the nursing home (Ladbroke Gardens); he agrees with Lucy that the move should be kept quiet; he will hold on sending the petition out for signature
Letter from Catherine Bowlby to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0004

Sender: Bowlby, Mrs Arthur Salvin [née Catherine Mary Bond] (1875 - 1943)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
17/05/1918
Catherine Bowlby explains to Lucy why she and Arthur have decided to remain quiet, presumably on the question of de László's internment. "[W]e are both so anxious that you should not think we are holding back because of what people would say ... it is purely A's public work which has grown & grown", she writes
Letter from Arthur Salvin Bowlby to de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0005

Sender: Bowlby, Arthur Salvin (1872-1932)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
13/05/1918
Arthur Bowlby is sorry to learn that de László has been ill; he hopes the artist can pay him a visit at his home in Gilston Park after treatment in the nursing home (de László was under house arrest at the time)
Letter from Austen Chamberlain to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0007

Sender: Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen (1863 - 1937)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
22/05/1918
Austen Chamberlain agrees with Lucy's decision to keep de László's move to the nursing home (Ladbroke Gardens) secret. He presses upon Lucy the necessity for "extreme caution". "He [de László] has paid a heavy penalty for his indiscretion & must be doubly careful not to revive suspicion by any thoughtless word", writes Chamberlain
Letter from Austen Chamberlain to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0009

Sender: Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen (1863 - 1937)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
05/02/1918
Believing de László to be "incapable of any treachery", Austen Chamberlain agrees to join Lords Devonport, Selborne and others in the artist's defence
Letter from Austen Chamberlain to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0010

Sender: Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen (1863 - 1937)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
30/12/1918
Austen Chamberlain is glad to know that de László was reunited with his family for Christmas
Letter from Lord Devonport to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0012

Sender: Devonport, Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount (1856 - 1934)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
10/12/1918
Lord Devonport has put the case to John Pedder and Lord Cave that de László should be allowed to take a house and be reunited with his family
Letter from Lord Devonport to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0013

Sender: Devonport, Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount (1856 - 1934)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
15/07/1918
Lord Devonport advises Lucy not to worry about the possibility of the withdrawal of naturalisations granted since the start of the war
Letter from Lord Devonport to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0014

Sender: Devonport, Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, 1st Viscount (1856 - 1934)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
17/05/1918
Lord Devonport is delighted to learn the good news that Lucy has succeeded in her efforts [to have de László moved from Holloway Prison]
Letter from Lucy de László to Sir Charles Russell, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0018

Sender: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)

Recipient: Russell, Sir Charles, 1st Baronet (1863 - 1928)
10/09/1918
Lucy describes de László's conversions from Judaism to Catholicism and Protestantism. "The outward form of religion matters to him little, but he is a reader of & believer in the Bible & Teachings of Christ", she writes. De László was a great support to his "gifted and noble" mother; his father, by contrast, was selfish
Letter from Noel Guinness to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0022

Sender: Guinness, Richard Noel (1870 - 1960)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
21/01/1918
Noel and Howard Guinness agree that it would be a mistake to approach Lord Beresford through the agency of a solicitor; Noel suggests having Lord Selborne contact Sir George Cave. Noel will arrange for income tax payment
Letter from James W. Lowther to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0025

Sender: Ullswater, James William Lowther, 1st Viscount (1855 - 1949)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
20/06/1918
James Lowther is presently very busy; he suggests Lucy might want to speak to his wife on the matter (see related archive item DLA166-0026)
Handwritten note in Lucy de László's hand, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0026

Sender: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
See fn1 in transcription
Note in Lucy's hand regarding her visit to the Speaker of the House of Common's wife, Mary Lowther. Lucy enquired if the Speaker would ask Sir George Cave to "rehabilitate" de László's reputation. Mary Lowther informed Lucy of the Speaker's view, expressed multiple times that, "there is nothing proved against him”, but that de László had been "injudicious in his conversation" (see related archive item DLA166-0025)
Letter from Lord Selborne to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0027

Sender: Selborne, William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of (1859 - 1942)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
01/07/1918
Lord Selborne can come to tea on 12th if convenient
Letter from Adriana van Riemsdijk to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0031

Sender: Riemsdijk-Loudon, Madame Theodorus Helenus Franciscus van [née Adriana Jacqueline Marie Loudon] (1856 - 1919)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
21/12/1918
Adriana van Riemsdijk is glad de László is well; she is in regular correspondence with Sir Charles Russell and will do what she can to help; hopes everyone has returned safely from the war; gives news of her daughter, Daisy
Letter from Lord Selborne to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0035

Sender: Selborne, William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of (1859 - 1942)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
19/05/1918
Lord Selborne accepts Lucy's invitation
Letter from Lord Selborne to Lucy de László, Internment Material Folder 51, 166-0036

Sender: Selborne, William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of (1859 - 1942)

Recipient: László, Mrs Philip de [née Lucy Madeleine Guinness] (1870 - 1950)
31/12/1918
Lord Selborne is glad and sends best wishes for the new year