System Number: 01642
Date: 4 December [1892][1]
Author: Isabella Stewart Gardner[2]
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler G8
Document Type: ALS
Decr 4 -
Dear Mr. Whistler
What bad luck, & what good luck!
The first that I should lose your visits (yours & Madame's[3]) this afternoon -
The second that I become possessor [p. 2] of the "Vers et Prose" with that wonderful portrait[4]! How kind of you - I am wholly as grateful & appreciative as you are charming to me -
When can we find you? I want to bring you the cheque & get my picture[5] - Both have to be signed, you know!
Always
Si[ncerel]y yours
Isabella S. Gardner
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Notes:
1. 4 December [1892]
Dated by reference to 'picture' (see below).
2. Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), née Stewart, collector [more].
3. Madame's
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].
4. portrait
Stéphane Mallarmé (C.60), the frontispiece to Mallarmé, Stéphane, Vers et Prose; Morceaux Choisis ... [par] Stéphane Mallarmé, Paris, 1893.