System Number: 01826
Date: 21 November 1888
Author: Algernon Graves[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler G191
Document Type: ALS
MEMORANDUM
FROM
HENRY GRAVES & COMPANY,
PRINTSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,
6, PALL MALL LONDON, S. W.
LONDON, Nov 21 1888
TO J M Whistler Eq
Dear Mr Whistler
The proposition made by you at the time was if we[2] not you sold the picture we were to share the profits[.] I have not the slightest doubt that my father[3] would not press the point if a sale takes place through us, he will I know be only too glad to get the affair settled and get his money back with interest - The cost of the [p. 2] Carlyle[4] would easily have increased from the 120£ - if that is the amount - by the interest that was owing by Howel[5] [sic] - But if you remember, all that transaction was closed & we started afresh by mutual arrangement at 300
I remain
Yours faithfully
A. Graves
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Notes:
1. Algernon Graves
Algernon Graves (1845-1922), of H. Graves and Co., print dealers [more]. See also JW's reply (#03513, #03514).
2. we
Double underlined.
3. my father
Henry Graves (1806-1892), print dealer and founder of H. Graves and Co. [more].
4. Carlyle
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137).
5. Howel
A misspelling of Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more].