Documents associated with: Lawless, Frederick
Record 3 of 8
System Number: 08110
Date: [November/December 1884][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: William Booth Pearsall[2]
Place: [Dublin]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 2/40/3
Document Type: ALS
13. Tite Street. Chelsea.
Dear Mr. Pearsall -
I am delighted with the articles[3] and charmed with the warmth of your sympathy - Please send me any cuttings from the papers. - adverse or other -
You do not say whether you received my last letter[4] - concerning your proposal to lecture -
Tell Lawless[5] with my kindest wishes that I shall write to him - mean while beg him to say nothing about the possible lectures -
In great haste,
Very sincerely[6] Yrs
J. McNeill Whistler
Most certainly[7] I shall be greatly pleased if you photograph the work and please do send me a proof at once!
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Notes:
1. [November/December 1884]
Dated by reference to Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures, and Photography, Dublin Sketching Club, Leinster Hall, Dublin, 1884.
2. William Booth Pearsall
William Booth Pearsall (1845-1913), dentist, Dublin exhibition organiser [more].
3. the articles
Newspaper cuttings, unidentified.
4. my last letter
JW's letter is #08106.
5. Lawless
Hon. Frederick Lawless (1847-1929), sculptor [more].
6. Very sincerely [...] Whistler
Written at right angles to the main text up the right margin.
7. Most certainly [...] at once!
Written at right angles to the main text down the left margin.