System Number: 01032
Date: 26 October 1893
Author: William Eden[1]
Place: Cromer
Recipient: David Croal Thomson[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler E20
Document Type: ALS
26: Oct: 1893.
TELEGRAMS, OVERSTRAND.
OVERSTRAND HALL,
CROMER.
To Mr Thompson [sic] -
Dear Sir -
I am going to send next week to yr studios Mr Swans[3] picture of my little girl[4] -
I am very anxious for you to see it - It is as you may suppose an exceedingly clever work [p. 2] but as a portrait it does not satisfy me -
Perhaps you will undertake therefore to dispose of it for me or even take it off my hands.
Yours truly
William Eden.
[p. 3, date stamp:] GOUPIL & COMPANY / 27 OCT. 93 / SUCCESSORS / BOUSSOD VALADON & CO.
'Clock'[5]
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Notes:
1. William Eden
Sir William Eden (1849-1915), painter and collector [more].
2. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more]. He may have sent this letter on to JW, who at first considered Eden as a potential patron.
3. Mr Swans
John Macallan Swan (1847-1908), animal painter and sculptor [more].
4. girl
Elfrida Marjorie Eden (1887-1943), daughter of Sir W. Eden [more].
5. 'Clock'
Added in pencil, in JW's hand.