Document associated with: Morrison, Isabel
Record 1 of 1
System Number: 05811
Date: 14 August 1894
Author: David Croal Thomson[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler T156
Document Type: ALS
[Oval cameo of Minerva, with text:] THE ART JOURNAL
5 Regent St
London S W294, CITY ROAD, LONDON, E. C.
Augt 14th 1894
Dear Mr Whistler,
I write to you about the Lithograph to ask you if at all possible you can arrange that The Art Journal has the Bébés[2] before the Studio one[3] comes out.
If you will kindly reflect a moment you will see that it has not been in our [p. 2] power to hasten the matter. The day after we settled to have it & the Count[4] I had the latter photographed at the Salon & I have done every thing possible to hurry it on - I believe we could have got a block satisfactory to you without Badoureau[5], but as you liked his work we sent it to him. You gave the other people the litho. chance first: you might give me the next. In any case I ask it as a favour begging you to look on my request in as friendly a light as possible.
[p. 3] I am wondering too when Mr Whibley[6] will send his article. If you see him could you mention I was asking?
I am telling my friend he may keep the letter as an autograph. I assure you I was very careful to see nothing was in in the little note, but I sent it to interest him & to bring him to do something if possible.
All the business letters you send are entirely sacred & personal to me alone.
[p. 4] Mrs Alfred Morrison[7] & a Mrs Thornton (? or Thornhill)[8] called at Goupils to-day & saw one or two of Pooles[9] little drawings & the Blue Wave[10]. The second lady is very much your admirer & seemed to know you but she is a stranger to us. They did not buy anything however
Yours very truly
D. C. Thomson
This document is protected by copyright.
Notes:
1. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
2. Bébés
Nursemaids: 'Les Bonnes du Luxembourg' (C.81).
3. Studio one
The Laundress: 'La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine' (C.93).
4. Count
Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (YMSM 398).
5. Badoureau
Edward Badoureau (b. ca 1850), a printer and boxwood block manufacturer [more].
6. Mr Whibley
Charles Whibley (1859-1930), writer and journalist [more].
7. Mrs Alfred Morrison
Isabel Morrison (b. ca 1849), wife of the collector, Alfred Morrison [more].
8. Mrs Thornton (? or Thornhill)
Not identified.
9. Pooles
Edward John Poole (b. ca 1848), civil servant and art collector [more].
10. Blue Wave
Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz (YMSM 41), which was bought by Alfred Atmore Pope (1842-1913), manufacturer and collector [more].