Documents associated with: Balestier, Wolcott
Record 10 of 17
System Number: 09007
Date: [June 1890/1891?][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Wolcott Balestier[2]
Place: [London?]
Repository: British Library, London
Call Number: Department of Manuscripts, Ashley A.4603.30
Document Type: ALS
21 CHEYNE WALK
CHELSEA
My dear Balestier -
I hear you have been laid up with a horrid cold - That's bad! and I can sympathize -
They tell me now though that you are quite better - and so the frivolities of life will begin with you again - Wherefore why not at once send me cheque for Lovell[3]? -
There will be the drollery of giving it to me - and the rollicking of taking it from Lovell!! -
Quel tonique mon cher "pour amolir et adoucir les entrailles de Monsieur[4]"!
As soon as I can get out myself I shall come round and bring you joy - which is health! -
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Notes:
1. [June 1890/1891?]
Dated by probable reference to publication (see below).
2. Wolcott Balestier
Charles Wolcott Balestier (1861-1891), novelist and literary agent [more].
3. Lovell
John Wurtele Lovell (1852-1932), publisher [more]. He was the American publisher of Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London and New York, 1890.
4. Monsieur
'Quel ... Monsieur', Fr., What a tonic, my dear chap, 'to calm the gentleman's stomach'.