Documents associated with: Webb, William
Record 9 of 352
System Number: 04301
Date: 20 May 1878
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Benjamin Ebenezer Nightingale[1]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler N58
Document Type: ALS
Mr B. E. Nightingale -
Dear Sir -
I enclose copy of letter I have this morning sent to Board of Works[2], and which will I doubt not put an end to all further difficulties -
Messrs. Webb[3] have by this post also a copy of same and I trust that you will be good enough not to stop the work until answer received -
Of course I regret exceedingly that you should in any way have had to suffer through this unexpected and curiously persecution on the part of the Board of Works [p. 2] and have only to thank you for the kind and courteous forbearance you have shown while executing such highly finished and perfect work for me -
Very faithfully Yours
J A McN. Whistler
P. S. Through some blunder of the foreman I suppose the key was taken away yesterday and I was obliged to force my way into the house having brought with me a party of ladies and gentlemen to show over the place - Will you kindly give strict orders that the key be always left with the watchman until I am ready for it myself - so that I may not again by chance find myself in such an absurd plight -
96. Cheyne Walk Chelsea
20th. May. 1878.
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Notes:
1. Benjamin Ebenezer Nightingale
Benjamin Ebenezer Nightingale (b. 1838), builder [more].
2. Board of Works
JW's letter to the Metropolitan Board of Works complained of their failure to deliver the lease of his new house, the White House in Tite Street (copy, #04058).
3. Messrs. Webb
JW sent his lawyers, George Webb (b. ca 1835), of G. and W. Webb. lawyer [more], and William Webb (b. ca 1851), of G. and W. Webb, lawyer [more], copies of this correspondence (#10751).