Documents associated with: Saint Stephen's Review (London)
Record 6 of 7
System Number: 07999
Date: [2 October 1889][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Amsterdam][2]
Recipient: Charles James Whistler Hanson[3]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/43/10
Document Type: AL[4]
What is the meaning of this letter of yours -
You write as though you were most satisfied with the way in which you are attending to your duties as though I certainly ought to be so too! -
You say nothing in reply to my question[5] as to what you have done during my absence - and in what way you my you have [deleted word, illegible] been of any service to either yourself or any one else - Not a word in reply! -
I gave special directions as to the Vale[6] and what you were to do about Messrs Rickets & Shannon[7] - [p. 2] not a line of any kind in return! -
I enclosed you a letter from Peter Robinsons lawyer[8], with copies of what I wished you to write to them - you simply take no notice whatever! - -
What does it all mean? -
Today no Pall Mall[9] has come - How is that? We should never be a single day without it - you have been told -
Ask Romeike[10] what he is about - There has been some article, if not more than one, in the St Stephens Review[11] - why have I never had it?
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Envelope:
To
C. J. Hanson Esq.
25. Margaretta Terrace -
Chelsea.
London
England -
[postmark:] AMSTERDAM 2 - 8 V / 2 / OCT / 89
Notes:
1. [2 October 1889]
Dated from postmark.
2. [Amsterdam]
Place from postmark.
3. Charles James Whistler Hanson
Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more].
4. AL
The letter was written in pencil, the envelope in purple ink.
5. my question
JW's questions in this letter mostly refer to his letter of 27 September (#07998).
6. the Vale
No. 2, The Vale, King's Road, Chelsea inhabited by JW and Maud Franklin from c.1886 until June 1888 and his marriage, then let out.
7. Messrs Rickets & Shannon
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (1866-1931), painter and designer [more], and Charles Hazlewood Shannon (1863-1937), painter and lithographer [more].
8. Peter Robinsons lawyer
W. Buxton Ashton (d. 1897), solicitor, of Buxton Ashton and Son. JW had enclosed a note on 27 September (#07998).
9. Pall Mall
Probably the Pall Mall Gazette.
10. Romeike
Henry Romeike, founder of the news agency [more], whose company should have sent JW a clipping of the newspaper article.
11. St Stephens Review
Article not identified.