Documents associated with: Balestier, Wolcott
Record 4 of 17
System Number: 10779
Date: [May/June 1890?][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: William Heinemann[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 10/747
Document Type: TLc
21, CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA.
Dear Mr. Heinemann -
If you have bet on my doing it by 7.30, you had better hedge with Balestier[3]! -
I shall certainly come though, and with delight -
I shall read you my letter to Augustus Harris[4]! -
Always
[butterfly signature]
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Notes:
1. [May/June 1890?]
Dated by address and JW's known association with Balestier in the publication of Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London and New York, 1890. A typed note says that this document was a visiting card.
2. William Heinemann
William Heinemann (1863-1920), publisher [more].
3. Balestier
Charles Wolcott Balestier (1861-1891), novelist and literary agent [more].
4. Augustus Harris
Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896), manager of Drury Lane Theatre [more].