System Number: 02978
Date: [22 November 1895][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Lyme Regis]
Recipient: Marcus Bourne Huish[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 3/40
Document Type: ALS
My dear Mr. Huish -
I am for the moment rather worked out - so only a line at this end of the day -
Way[3] has sent other proofs - & I will sign them - & post them on to you. The "Toilet"[4], may perhaps go in the Show - but there is another one of the same model seated (of the same period) which he has not [p. 2] sent - I think he calls it the seated figure - She is leaning back in a chair - That I will not have in the exhibition - I dont like it & never did -
Flag[5] - I had imagined hanging from staff - and caught up at the other end over the Balcony - "Graceful you know" - as Mr Pecksniff[6] might say - & the Butterfly would be seen right enough for he is near the top - Post the patterns of stuff anyhow tomorrow & I will think this over -
What is Mr Brown[7] going to do about the little drawing? tell him I payed 15 guineas for it myself at the sale[8] - so I dont make much & leave him plenty of margin - But if I have his price it ought be guineas - Dont you think?
Tell him from me not to "nibble the bit off the cheque"!
[butterfly signature]
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Notes:
1. [22 November 1895]
This may be a reply to a letter from M. B. Huish, 21 November 1895, #01316.
2. Marcus Bourne Huish
Marcus Bourne Huish (1843 - d.1921), barrister, writer and art dealer, Director of the Fine Art Society [more]. This letter relates to preparations for JW's forthcoming exhibition, Mr Whistler's Lithographs, The Fine Art Society, London, 1895. The exhibition opened in December.
3. Way
Thomas Way (1837-1915), lithographic printer [more].
4. The Toilet
The Toilet (C.10). The model was Mary Maud Franklin (1857- ca 1941), JW's model and mistress [more].
5. Flag
See JW's sketches for the flag in #02974, #02976.
6. Mr Pecksniff
Seth Pecksniff, the snobbish, morally self-righteous architecture pupil of Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).
7. Mr Brown
Ernest George Brown (1853 or 1854-1915), assistant manager at the Fine Art Society [more].
8. sale
r.: Maud Franklin; v.: Study of Maud Franklin (M.693), sold at Bullock's bankruptcy sale of Oscar Wilde's effects, 24 April 1895 (cat. no. 123; see D. C. Thomson to JW, 24 April 1895, #05817). JW had offered the drawing to Brown on 21 September 1895, #03626. On 19 November Brown disputed JW's price (#01312). 'at the sale ... signature]' is written at right-angles to the main text in the left and right-hand margins of p. 1.