Documents associated with: Hannay, Alys Mary
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System Number: 04751
Date: [22 August 1899][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Rosalind Birnie Philip[2]
Place: Pourville-sur-mer
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P391
Document Type: ALS
TELEGRAMS,
DELICIOUS,
LONDON.
GARLANT'S HOTEL,
SUFFOLK STREET,
PALL MALL.
Monday morning
My dear Major -
Your letter this morning -
Why didn't you say what was in Eddy's[3] letter? - -
I shall I hope get off tomorrow - and back to you in the afternoon - but will send word -
Holland as I told you a failure -
Of course make [p. 2] the Pennells[4] stay and wait for me! -
I wonder about Mrs Hannay! -
Ludovici[5] has been very nice - but was unable to stay with me -
Now something ought to be done about Ratier[6] and the Rue du Bac - But I suppose they are all swallowed up in Rennes[7] - And Paris seems to be in a pretty bad way just now - though of course all greatly exagerated [sic] in the papers -
Well I will leave this open until the evening -
You had my telegram in its wrecked condition as you say - but what of the letter[8] I wrote you on Sunday? that ought to have reached you? -
I have had an amazing letter from the Christine[9] that I think Miss Frank[10] will be pleased with -
Where is Bunnie[11]?
Coming tomorrow -
Bringing birds to your Mother[12] for dinner - so prepare fire for roasting
[Affectly?]
the General
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
àMademoiselle Birnie-Philip
Pavillon Madeleine -
Pourville-sur-Mer
pres Dieppe
France
[stamp:] POSTAGE & REVENUE / ONE HALF PENNY
[stamp:] POSTAGE & REVENUE / 6d
[postmark:] CONTINENTAL NIGHT MAIL / C. X. / [...] / AU 22 / 99
[postmark on verso:] [DIEPPE] / SEINE INFRE / [...]
Notes:
1. [22 August 1899]
Dated from postmark.
2. Rosalind Birnie Philip
Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more]. JW called her 'Major' and himself 'General'.
3. Eddy's
Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920), writer and collector [more]. He wrote to JW on 10 August 1899, planing to arrive in Liverpool on 24 or 25 August (#01030).
4. Pennells
Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) and his wife Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936), née Robins, JW's biographers.
5. Ludovici
Albert Ludovici, Jr (1852-1932), painter [more].
6. Ratier
Antoine ('Antony') Ratier (b. 1851), lawyer and politician [more].
7. Rennes
The Dreyfus case (see #04752).
9. Christine
Mrs Christine Anderson, manager of the 'Company of the Butterfly' [more].
10. Miss Frank
Frances Septima Philip (1867-1949), JW's sister-in-law [more].
11. Bunnie
Ethel Whibley (1861-1920), née Philip, JW's sister-in-law [more]. The rest of the letter was written in pencil.
12. Mother
Frances Philip (1824-1917), née Black, JW's mother-in-law [more]. This sentence was scrawled at the bottom of the letter, and the valediction and signature in the right margin.