UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

System Number: 01660
Date: 17 April 1889
Author: Alfred Gilbert^[1]
Place: London
Recipient: William Christian Symons^[2]
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler G26
Document Type: ALS

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THE AVENUE,
76, FULHAM ROAD.

April 17. 89.

Dear Mr Symons

I herewith send you a cheque for my dinner^[3] ticket. With regard to suggesting invitations, Most of my friends who are also sympathetic with the object [p. 2] for which the dinner is to be given, are I believe already engaged to it. If I might suggest, I should say that the foreign artists resident in London should be asked, if indeed they are not already [well?] represented.

Yours truly

Alfred Gilbert

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Envelope:

'Alfred Gilbert'^[4]

W Christian Symons Esqre
55 Park Road
Haverstock Hill
N W
[stamp x 2:] POSTAGE & REVENUE / ONE HALFPENNY
[postmark:] CHELSEA / S. W. / I Z / AP17 / 89

'Gilbert'^[5]

[postmark on verso:] LONDON N. W. / W A / AP18 / 89

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Notes:

1.  Alfred Gilbert
Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934), sculptor [more].

2.  William Christian Symons
William Christian Symons (1845-1911), painter and designer [more].

3.  dinner
Tickets to the Criterion Dinner in honour of JW, held on 1 May 1889, cost one guinea each.

4.  'Alfred Gilbert'
Written in another hand.

5.  'Gilbert'
Written on reverse, in another hand.