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System Number: 07368
Date: [13 April 1878][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton[2]
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W1356
Document Type: ALS


'13 Apl 1878'[3]

Dear Watts -

I have had a visit and should like to tell you about it - Can't you look in tomorrow morning? -

Ever Yours -

J A McN. Whistler

Friday night -

In every case you know I rely upon you on You [sic] for Sunday - but espically [sic] for the breakfast [p. 2] as I intend you to take in a great swell -

[butterfly signature]


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Envelope:

'Whistler'[4]

Theodore Watts Esq
3. Putney Hill
'Ivy Lodge -'[5]
Putney -
[stamp:] POSTAGE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON. S. W / 7 / AP 13 / 78


Notes:

1.  [13 April 1878]
Dated from postmark.

2.  Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton
Walter Theodore Watts (later Watts-Dunton) (1832-1914), solicitor, novelist and poet [more].

3.  '13 Apl 1878'
Added in another hand, in pencil.

4.  'Whistler'
Added in another hand, in pencil.

5.  'Ivy Lodge -'
The address was corrected in another hand, probably by the post office officials.