System Number: 01184
Date: 13 January 1887[1]
Author: Marcus Bourne Huish[2]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler F116
Document Type: ALS
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT
[Royal coat of arms]
TO H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.
[etc.]
TELEGRAPHIC[3] ADDRESS / "FINART, LONDON."
THE FINE ART SOCIETY[4],
LIMD
148, NEW BOND ST.
W.
Jan 13th 1887
My dear Whistler
Here is check for twenty guineas. Please give the four dozen etchings[5] which we asked you to print to bearer. I think it right to tell you that your messenger[6] does not transact your business in the most [p. 2] courteous manner - The check had already been drawn for the amount when he called a second time respecting it.
Yours fai[thfu]lly
Marcus B Huish
[p. 3] 'F. A. S.[7]'
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Notes:
1. 13 January 1887
JW's reply to this letter is #01187.
2. Marcus Bourne Huish
Marcus Bourne Huish (1843 - d.1921), barrister, writer and art dealer, Director of the Fine Art Society [more].
3. THE FINE ART SOCIETY
Printed on right.
4. TELEGRAPHIC ... LONDON."
Printed from a rubber stamp.
5. four dozen etchings
The list of etchings is #12996. JW was still printing Mr Whistler's Etchings of Venice, 1880 (the first 'Venice Set') (K. 183-189, 191-195). (excat 5). A list showing the rather slow progress of printing between 1881 and 1887 is #01185.
6. messenger
Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more].
7. F. A. S.
Noted in JW's hand.