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[[left side]] 2 Mr. Volk at the Chateau of Laeken, tomorrow Saturday at Eleven o'clock. Will you my dear colleague accept my devoted & cordial sentiments, (signed) Arschot P.S. Will you very kindly advise Mr. Volk of the above. ------- [[archival note:]] Confidential [[above the line]] one other note from our military attache advised me that a U.S. car would call at my studio for me at 10.30— I was up early as I had changed hotels the night before, and had to get some things together for the sitting. I spent an hour or so before starting getting materials in perfect order so there would [[right side]] 3 be no time lost, even getting a complete scale of tones mixed on my palette, so I could drive ahead with the work with expedition. At 10.30 the car came to the studio with a tipical [[typical]] bright "Dough boy" at the wheel, and we were off - I was pleased that the King had appointed his summer palace for the sitting, for several reasons, I feel that there would be less restraint & hurry there, and I was also desireous [[desirous]] of seeing this wonderful Palace, (the favorite residence of King Leopold) at close range - we drove along the confines of the estate quite a a time before coming to the entrance, such wonderful vistas of the wooded rolling grounds, ponds & meadows, they were cutting grass on the [[less?]] extensive fields, and it
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d'Arschot Schoonhoven -> Belgian Nobility