Documents associated with: Deschamps, Charles William
Record 5 of 54
System Number: 11438
Date: [20 December 1872][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Charles William Deschamps[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/22
Document Type: ALS
'3[3]'
[embossed:] THE ARTS CLUB
17, HANOVER SQUARE, W.
Friday night
My dear Deschamps -
I wonder if you could come down to me tomorrow - if not too much engaged - some where about half past two or three - I am off on Monday morning early - to be away for a week or ten days - and should like to see you before I leave - not anything very particular - [p. 2] but still perhaps a thing or two to say that one might remember in talking but that one can hardly think of in writing.
Also I am finishing a screen[4] that I will only have this chance of showing you - and I have an idea that "something is to be done" - about which we might 'dodge a means' - etc. - ! However come and see - Also [p. 3] if it so 'arranges itself' bring the foreign swell[5] - If it be more convenient - look in on Sunday morning at about one o'clock - but as I tell you, Monday morning I am off -
Come tomorrow though if you can -
Sincerely yours
J A McN Whistler.
2 Lindsey Houses.
Chelsea -
Could you possibly have a proof from Parsons[6] to bring with you? -
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
C. Deschamps, Esq.Society of French Artists
168, New Bond Street
Piccadilly
London -
[butterfly signature]
[stamp:] POSTAGE / ONE PENNY[postmark:] LONDON W / 07 / DE 21 / 72
Notes:
1. [20 December 1872]
Written late at night; the postmark has the next day's date.
2. Charles William Deschamps
Charles William Deschamps (1848-1908), art dealer [more].
3. 3
Written in top right corner in an unknown hand. This is the third of three letters JW had recently written to Deschamps (#07905, #07906).
4. screen
Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge (YMSM 139).
5. foreign swell
Unidentified.
6. proof from Parsons
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101) was photographed by John Robert Parsons (ca 1826 - d.1909), painter, photographer, and art dealer [more], late in 1872 (see #11974).