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Robert Howard Russell, ??-??

Nationality: American
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Robert Howard Russell founded the firm of Russell and Sons, New York publishers.

Life:

Robert Howard Russell was the publisher of the New York edition of Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris and New York, 1899 [GM, A.24]. His relationship with JW was not entirely satisfactory (see, for instance, JW's letter to Heinemann, #10814).

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New York Public Library on-line catalogue, http://catnyp.nypl.org (accessed 2005).