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System Number: 06855
Date: 17 November [1875][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: [none]
Place:
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W0844
Document Type: ADS

November 17.

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      Potage[2] tomate, à l'Americain
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      Sole frite.
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      Côtelettes de Mouton soubise
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      Poulet à la Baltimore -
      P[sic] homony-
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      Bifteck à la Francaise
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      Compote de Poire -
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Café -

[p. 2] Crabb - Tissot - Allan Cole - Moore[3]


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Notes:

1.  17 November [1875]
Although JW's menu gives the date of 17 November, Alan S.Cole's diary, as transcribed by the Pennells, records the date of this dinner as 16 November 1875: 'Dined with Jimmy: Tissot, A. Moore and Captain Crabb. Lovely blue and white china - and capital small dinner. General conversation and ideas on art unfettered by principles. Lovely Japanese lacquer.' (Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, I, p. 189; see #12986).

2.  Potage
The menu, written in French, comprised American tomato soup, fried sole, mutton cutlets, Baltimore chicken with hominy, beefsteak in the French manner, stewed pears, and coffee. Thus it follows A. S. Cole's idea of a 'capital small dinner', which comprised four courses, with three choices for the meat course, followed by coffee (Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, I, p. 189).

3.  Crabb - Tissot - Allan Cole - Moore
This guest list confirms Cole's diary, as quoted above (Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, I, p. 189). The guests were Captain Crabb, commander of The Brazilian in 1870, and three close friends: Jacques ('James') Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), painter and etcher [more], Alan Summerly Cole (1846-1934), textile expert and museum official [more], and Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), painter [more].