Documents associated with: Ostrorog, Leon
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System Number: 04354
Date: 16 April 1889
Author: Count Ostrorog[1]
Place: London
Recipient: William Christian Symons[2]
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler O19
Document Type: MsLS
DAY AND ELECTRIC LIGHT STUDIOS. = LIFT.
[logo with crown:] VR
WALERY,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
TO THE QUEEN[3].
Earl[4]
164, REGENT STREET,
LONDON, W.
April 16th 1889
Dear Sir.
I have much pleasure in enclosing cheque, value £1. 1. -, and beg you will forward me a ticket for the Complimentary Dinner[5] to Mr. J. McNeill Whistler.
Thanking you in advance I remain, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully
for Count Ostrorog
[Adavat?]
W. Christian Symons Eqre
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
'Count Ostrorog'[6]
W. Christian Symons Esq55 Park Road
Haverstock Hill.
[stamp:] POSTAGE AND INLAND REVENUE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON-W / X / AP17 / 89 / 5
[postmark:] LONDON. N. [W.] / L X / [...rest missing...]
[on flap, printed in red:] 'WALERY'
Notes:
1. Count Ostrorog
Count Leon Ostrorog (1867-1932), legal adviser to the Turkish Government [more].
2. William Christian Symons
William Christian Symons (1845-1911), painter and designer [more].
3. QUEEN
Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of Great Britain [more].
4. Earl
Written across the letterhead.
5. Dinner
A dinner, to congratulate JW on being made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Munich, was held at the Criterion in Piccadilly on 1 May 1889. It was organised by W. C. Symons. JW took an active part in promoting it and deciding who should or should not be invited.
6. 'Count Ostrorog'
Written in another hand.