Documents associated with: Winans, Neva
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System Number: 06683
Date: 26 July 1868
Author: George William Whistler[1]
Place: Carlsbad
Recipient: Julia de Kay Whistler[2]
Place: [ ]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W677
Document Type: ALS
'No. 89'[3]
[topographical colour illustration with caption:] CARLSBAD.
Bohéme.
July 26. 1868.
My dear little Girl of 13 years -
I cannot allow the day of your birth aniversary [sic] to pass without sending you these few lines from far away to assure you how my dear you are to me, & to bear testemony [sic] to your always having been a good & dutiful daughter every one of your 13 years of life - One day you will probably understand better than you now can what a real happiness it is to a Father when he can write his Daughter of 13 years as I write you to day -
Godbless you my dear Child - from your Father
G. W W.
NB. Tell Ross[4] I dont forget that he is a Good Boy, & that when he is 13 I expect to have as great happiness in writing him as I have had in writing you - Tom[5] & Neva[6] have no birth days just at this time, so they must await their turn -
[p. 3][7]
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Notes:
1. George William Whistler
George William Whistler (1822-1869), engineer, JW's half-brother [more].
2. Julia de Kay Whistler
Julia de Kay Revillon (1855-1930), née Whistler, JW's niece [more].
3. 'No. 89'
Written in pencil in top right corner, in another hand.
4. Ross
Ross Winans Whistler (b. 1858), JW's nephew [more].
5. Tom
Thomas Delano Whistler (1857-1921), engineer, JW's nephew [more].
6. Neva
Neva Winans (1860-1907), née Whistler, JW's niece [more].
7. [p. 3]
Affixed to this page is an oval cut out photograph of George William Whistler.