System Number: 02949
Date: [29 June 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Marcus Bourne Huish[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 3/14
Document Type: ALS
33. Rue du Tournon. Paris -
Wednesday -
Dear Mr. Huish -
You must have recieved by now the five packages of proofs sent by Colis Postal[3] with great care - Mr. Thomson[4] of the Goupil Co. who was here today, takes over with him by club train on Friday the remaining package which he is kind enough to carry with him & deliver to you personally -
Kindly let me hear from you when [p. 2] you & Mr. Browne[5] have gone through them -
I have also begged Mr. Thomson to transmit to you one or two things I wished to say to you about the present price you should ask for these proofs - after which I will have made my last effort for their well being and they must be left to "go by the Board" -
Of course there still remains a matter of printing from the two plates - "The Doorway" & "the Beggars"[6] - also the destroyed plate and its proof "the Palaces" - This when I get by & bye the time and am well in my new studio -
For the present we are leaving town very shortly - for the sea side -
I am much obliged to you about the cheque - which it is understood you make out to Messrs G. & W. Webb[7] -
Kindly direct the Envelope toWilliam Webb Esq
11. Austin Friars
E. C.
Very faithfully Yours
J McN. Whistler
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Notes:
1. [29 June 1892]
Dated by almanac, and letter from E. G. Brown, 2 July 1892, #01249.
2. Marcus Bourne Huish
Marcus Bourne Huish (1843 - d.1921), barrister, writer and art dealer, Director of the Fine Art Society [more].
3. Colis Postal
Fr., parcel post.
4. Mr. Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
5. Mr. Browne
Ernest George Brown (1853 or 1854-1915), assistant manager at the Fine Art Society [more].
6. 'The Doorway' & 'The Beggars'
This relates to the printing of the A Set of twenty-six etchings of Venice, 1886 (the second 'Venice set') (K.196-216, 233-237). (excat 6). The etchings mentioned here are The Doorway (K.188), The Beggars (K.194) and The Palaces (K.187).
7. Messrs G. & W. Webb
George Webb (b. ca 1835), of G. and W. Webb. lawyer [more]; and William Webb (b. ca 1851), of G. and W. Webb, lawyer [more].