System Number: 00174
Date: 26 August 1887
Author: W. Craibe Angus[1]
Place: Glasgow
Recipient: JW
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler A173
Document Type: ALS
J A McNeill Whist[l]er, Esquire. The Vale. Chelsea
[Glasgow emblem, and motto:] LET GLASGOW FLOURISH
CRAIBE ANGUS & SON,
FINE ART GALLERIES,
159, QUEEN STREET, GLASGOW.
August 26 '87
Your "Ten O'Clock[2]."
Dear Mr Whistler -
Just a line to thank you for your kindness to me the other night at The Vale. Your "Ten O'Clock" is unique and I am delighted at having heard it from your own lips. If you come to Glasgow to deliver the "Ten O'Clock" to the Art Club[3] Mr Arthur[4], whom I have seen today, will be glad to put you up at his house. I hope you will be his guest during your visit to Glasgow. Let me know what you decide to do; and if I can in any way forward your views I shall gladly do so.
"Naval Review" Etchings[5].
Select a unique set of these for my firm, and with them the other etchings[6] I laid aside, and make a short note in your own hand Stating that the "Naval" Set Show all the Plates at their best. Again, thanking you for your kindness,
I am
Yours truly
W C Angus.
I am not letting the matter of the Carlyle portrait[7] Sleep.
W C A
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Notes:
1. W. Craibe Angus
William Craibe Angus (1830-1899), Glasgow art dealer [more].
2. Ten O'Clock
JW's 'Ten O'Clock' Lecture was delivered in Princes Hall, London, on 20 February 1885, and on several occasions later in the year.
3. Art Club
Presumably Glasgow Art Club: unfortunately JW never visited Glasgow again.
4. Mr Arthur
Thomas Glen Arthur (1858-1907), clothing merchant and textile manufacturer [more].
5. Naval Review Etchings
'Naval Review set', 1887 (K. 316-331).
6. other etchings
Not identified.
7. Carlyle portrait
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137).