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Letters 1900-1915 Private, 003-0024

Sender: P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
14/04/1915
Letter inquiring as to whether de László's promised lot in a charity auction could be a posthumous portrait
Letters 1900-1915 Private, 003-0074

Sender: Cullen, Frederick (1864 - 1950)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
25/06/1915
Letter from one of de László's few authorised copyists, Frederick Cullen, thanking de László for a "generous" cheque for two copies. Also mentions that Lord Albemarle will be in touch should he wish to have a copy made
Letters 1894-1916 Private, 004-0007

Sender: Cader, Douglas

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
15/12/1915
The sender thanks de László and says his "Uffizzi portrait" [9724] is "extremely interesting", but regrets that the contract for his book stipulates photographs are to be taken by J. Russell & Sons
Letters 1894-1916 Private, 004-0008

Sender: Draper, Herbert James (1863 - 1920)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
10/01/1915
Letter from the painter, Herbert James Draper, requesting de László's support for election to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Based on the RP's membership lists, it does not appear that Draper was successful in his bid for election
Letters 1894-1916 Private, 004-0018

Sender: Egerer, Otto V.

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
04/06/1915
Letter from Otto V. Egerer asking de László if he knows whether his brother (presumably Gedeon?) is alive or dead. The sender tells de László that he became a British subject in 1902 and that the war had not thus far "affected me materially or otherwise". De László had painted the sender's father, Doctor Sámuel Egerer, in 1897 [9059]
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0011

Sender: Hechler, Professor The Reverend William Henry (1845 - 1931)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
23/03/1915
Letter from the Reverend William Henry Hechler to de László reminiscing about the trip the two had taken together to Greece the year before (de László had received a commission to paint the Greek royal family in Athens and invited the Reverend as his companion and secretary)
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0013

Sender: Herbert, Lady Michael [née Leila "Belle" Wilson] (1864 - 1923)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
03/03/1915
Letter from Lady Herbert thanking de László for her son, Sidney's, portrait [5598]; she compares it to the "wonderful sketch" de László did of her other son, Michael George Herbert [5596]. She adds that Lady Lowther is delighted with the portrait of Sir Gerard [13370], remarking that it must provide Lady Lowther with "great comfort"
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0018

Sender: Hechler, Professor The Reverend William Henry (1845 - 1931)

Recipient: Laszlo, Paul Leonardo de (1906 - 1983)
23/07/1915
Letter from The Reverend William Henry Hechler to Paul de Laszlo in which the sender recounts a day spent in the company of the British paleontologist Charles William Andrews during the course of his excavations of "Elephas Antiquus" (an extinct species of straight-tusked Elephant) in Upnor, Kent
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0026

Sender: Williams, Oakley

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
13/01/1915
Letter from Oakley Williams to de László regarding correspondence with the printer and engraver, Frederick Jenkins. Jenkins submitted that there was an outstanding amount on de László's account relating to work he had undertaken for Oakley Williams' de László publication
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0043

Sender: Holzhauer, Gottlieb

Recipient: Mühlhause, Richard
25/01/1915
Postcard (sent via Army Field Post) dated January 1915 from Gottlieb Holzhauer to Richard Mühlhause in which Holzhauer has just heard that Mühlhause is in the field; he sends his best wishes
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0054

Sender: Sutcliffe, Tom

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
06/04/1915
Letter from Tom Sutcliffe, art editor of the Illustrated Sunday Herald, to de László requesting permission to photograph and reproduce the artist's portrait of Elinor Glyn [5361], then on view at the Grosvenor Gallery.
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0061

Sender: Short, Wilfred Maurice (1870 - 1947)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
24/03/1915
Letter from Wilfred Maurice Short, private secretary to Arthur James Balfour, to de László informing the artist that Trinity College, Cambridge has agreed to lend the portrait of Balfour [2707] to the "Manchester Exhibition" being organised by Sir Alfred George Temple (although the original proposal for the exhibition came from Manchester, in the event it opened in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London before travelling to the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield)
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0069

Sender: Horlick, Sir James, 1st Baronet (1844 - 1921)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
16/03/1915
Letter from Sir James Horlick, 1st Baronet, to de László enclosing a cheque for £200 for the portrait of his son, Sir James Nockells Horlick, 4th Baronet [5653]
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0076

Sender: Holroyd, Sir Charles (1861 - 1917)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
23/05/1915
Letter from Sir Charles Holroyd, then Director of the National Gallery, to de László in which he thanks the artist for his sympathy. Holroyd's son was in hospital in Versailles having received a gunshot wound to the head, but was "progressing satisfactorily"
Letters H 1904-16 Private, 007-0077

Sender: Hanbury-Williams, Miss Gwladys Frances

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
01/05/1915
Letter from Gwladys Frances Hanbury-Williams to de László thanking the artist on her mother's behalf for agreeing to see her sister's drawings. She adds that they have had good news from her father in Russia, who was then on his way back from Przemysl
K 1894-1916 Private, 008-0003

Sender: Kay-Shuttleworth, The Honourable Rachel Beatrice (1886 - 1967)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
01/04/1915
Letter from the Honourable Rachel Beatrice Kay-Shuttleworth to de László requesting support for a scheme. "Everyone who has heard of it is in sympathy so far", she writes, "especially the artists and craftsmen who realise the great need there is". Kay-Shuttleworth was a life-long collector of textile and craft items as well as a maker, teacher, philanthropist and social activist, and would go on to found, in 1959, the Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth Textile Collections, a charity
1892-1925 Private, 009-0015

Sender: Lonsdale, L. Margaret

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
24/08/1915
Letter from L. Margaret Lonsdale regarding the potential letting of a property to the artist
1892-1925 Private, 009-0023

Sender: Latham, Doctor Morton (1843 - 1931)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
11/07/1915
Letter from the composer, Morton Latham, thanking de László for an inscribed picture of a "great man by a great artist"
1892-1925 Private, 009-0027

Sender: Lavery, Sir John (1856 - 1941)

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
25/07/1915
Sir John Lavery thanks de László for his inquiries following a recent motor accident that he and his wife, Hazel, were involved in (this item was previously archived with DLA009-0021)
R 1898-1916 Private, 010-0012

Sender: Rosier, Jean G.

Recipient: László, Philip Alexius de (1869 - 1937)
02/07/1915
Letter from Jean G. Rosier thanking de László for an inscribed colour engraving, which he describes as "a precious souvenir of the great artist whose work we so justly admire"