System Number: 02982
Date: [28 November 1895][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Lyme Regis]
Recipient: Marcus Bourne Huish[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 3/44
Document Type: ALS
I wish you would send me back that little note[3] I wrote you yesterday my dear Huish -
I will return it if you care to have it - but I thought after wards that what I had said about the misunderstanding of the people etc . . . was greatly to the pourpose [sic] & I should like to show it to my wife[4] -
I am writing to Dunthorne[5] to withdraw [p. 2] the lithographs of mine - for they are lithographs - so I see by the papers - from his show - No time to tell you the letter now - but it was clear! - You shall see -
Tea - I am glad you will do away with that -
Proofs[6] - I sat up last night signing & arranging - & you shall have them all - Will get them off tomorrow or Friday at latest -
Paris Proofs - There ought to be two drawings of Smiths or Forgerons[7] - I mean two different pictures - one. single figure, & the[8] other 3 figures or the upper part of them seen in dark place - Have you both?
[sketches of lithographs[9]]
In haste
[butterfly signature]
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Notes:
1. [28 November 1895]
Dated by the reference to JW's letter of the previous day, and its copy, #01320.
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. It opened in December. See also correspondence on the exhibition between JW and M. B. Huish, #02975, #02976, #02978, #02981, #02983, and #02984.
3. little note
#02976; JW's copy of it is #01320.
4. wife
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].
5. Dunthorne
Robert Dunthorne (b. ca 1851), of the Rembrandt Gallery, print dealer and publisher [more]. JW's letter to Dunthorne has not been located.
6. Proofs
JW was signing lithographs for his exhibition at the Fine Art Society.
7. Forgerons
The Forge, Passage du Dragon (C.102) and The Smith, Passage du Dragon (C.103).
8. the
'the other ... both?' is written in the left margin of p. 2, and the remainder in the left margin of p. 1, at right angles to the main text.
9. sketches of lithographs
Sketches of 'The Forge: Passage du Dragon' and 'The Smith: Passage du Dragon' (M.1450). The sketches and the butterfly signature appear at right-angles to the main text in the margin of p. 1.