Documents associated with: Woodward, Benjamin D.
Record 3 of 5
System Number: 04425
Date: 7 August 1902
Author: Benjamin D. Woodward[1]
Place: Paris
Recipient: JW
Place: The Hague
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P65
Document Type: TLS
UNITED STATES COMMISSION
TO THE
PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900.
'Answered / Aug 23 - 1902[2]'
BENJ. D. WOODWARD,
EX. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER GENERAL.
P. O. BOX 1243,
NEW YORK CITY.
Paris, Aug 7th 1902
25 BIS, RUE DECAMPS[3]
Mr MacNeil [sic] Whistler
86 Rue N. D. [Notre Dame] des Champs - Paris
Dear Sir:-
I hold at your disposal the diplomas of award which you obtained at the Paris Exposition of 1900[4]. Kindly let me know if the same will reach you at the above address if sent by registered mail,
and oblige,
Very truly yours
B D Woodward.
'Answered from[5] the Hague - requesting diplomas to be sent on to Hotel des Indes - The Hague'
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Notes:
1. Benjamin D. Woodward
Benjamin Duryea Woodward (b. 1868), Assistant Commissioner to the Paris Universal Exposition [more].
2. Answered / Aug 23 - 1902
Probably written in the hand of Ethel Whibley (1861-1920), née Philip, JW's sister-in-law [more] (see #06327).
3. 25 BIS, RUE DECAMPS
Stamped in purple ink.
4. Paris Exposition of 1900
Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900. JW exhibited several major pictures, Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl (YMSM 52); Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian (YMSM 378) and Brown and Gold (YMSM 440). He received the Grand Prix award for painting and engraving (B. D. Woodward to JW, #04426). See also Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2., pp. 251-52.
5. Answered from...Indes - The Hague
Pencil note in JW's hand. JW was recovering in The Hague from a serious bout of illness and did not return to London until early September (see JW to H. Whistler, #06750).