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System Number: 03583
Date: [25 September 1889][1]
Author: Beatrix Whistler[2]
Place: Amsterdam
Recipient: Charles James Whistler Hanson[3]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 8/45
Document Type: ALS


Grand Restaurant Riche
Amsterdam.

Dear Mr Hanson,

You are to take the enclosed to Mr Radcliffe[4] at the office of the St Stephens Review at once - The master says you are not to say anything to anyone - He sends you the enclosed cheque and will write -

Believe me -
Very sincerely yours

Beatrix Whistler.

The World has not come also the Detroit Free Press[5]


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Notes:

1.  [25 September 1889]
Dated from postmark of envelope, #03586, included in the same letterbook, which possibly belongs with this letter.

2.  Beatrix Whistler
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].

3.  Charles James Whistler Hanson
Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more].

4.  Mr. Radcliffe
Raymond Cox Radclyffe or Radcliffe (ca 1852 - d.1929), Eton schoolmaster from 1876-1907 [more].

5.  Detroit Free Press
This sentence was added at the top of the page. JW regularly read the World and the Detroit Free Press, the latter possibly apparently being sent to him by Mrs Melhuish (see #04660).