Documents associated with: Paddon, Samuel Wreford
Record 16 of 36
System Number: 09526
Date: 8 July 1882
Author: Samuel Wreford Paddon[1]
Place: Redhill
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Published
Document Type: PLSc[2]
Woodlands, Redhill,
8th July, 1882.
Dear Whistler,
Your letter[3] was awaiting me on my return from Paris. In reply to your enquiry, I had the correspondence printed[4] for the sake of reference, it being less difficult to read print than to wade through a mass of manuscript. I may, however, add that the only copies I have parted with I gave to Mr. Howell[5], and it is quite possible that Mr. Jack McNay[6] obtained one through him.
I take no interest whatever in the information you volunteer as to what you intend doing in this matter in the future; it is now in Mr. Howell's hands, and I am satisfied that he is fully able to protect himself.
As far as I am concerned, I can only refer you to the last paragraph in my letter to you of 27th March[7].
Faithfully yours,
S. Wreford Paddon.
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Notes:
1. Samuel Wreford Paddon
Samuel Wreford Paddon (b. 1843), diamond merchant and collector [more].
2. PLc
Whistler, James McNeill, Correspondence. Paddon Papers. The Owl and the Cabinet, London, [1882], No. VIII, p.6; for full annotation of the pamphlet, see JW's letter to S. W. Paddon, 10 March 1882 (#09519). There are copies of the pamphlet in Glasgow University Library (Whistler 202-205A, B) and the Art Institute of Chicago (Walter Brewster Collection). The original letter has not been traced.
3. letter
JW's letter to S. W. Paddon, #04368.
4. correspondence printed
Not traced.
5. Mr Howell
Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more].
6. Mr Jack McNay
John ('Jack') Edward MacNay (1834-1893), General Manager of the Stockton and Darlington Railway [more].
7. my letter to you of 27th March
S. W. Paddon to JW, 27 March 1882 (#04367).