UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler
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System Number: 03227
Date: [15 July 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Alexander Reid[2]
Place: Glasgow
Repository: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Call Number: FGA Whistler 200a
Credit Line: Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of the Estate of Charles Lang Freer
Document Type: ALS[3]


33. Rue de Tournon - Paris -

Dear Mr Reid -

But a moment to get this off - but I want to acknowledge safe arrival of cheque - and to tell you that I have sent off the three other lithographs to take the place of the ones you do not require -

You will be amused by the long "open letter[4]" to P. O on the covering - and ought to send it to Glasgow Papers.

You should see that they get it in quite correctly though - It could be headed An Open Letter -

In terrible haste

J McN Whistler.


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Envelope:

RESTAURANT & HÔTEL
FOYOT
RUE DE TOURNON, 33
PARIS

'S'

To
Alexander Reid - Esq -
Societé des Beaux Arts.
West George Street
Glasgow
'Kilbride House
[Southend?]
Arran
via Whiting Bay'
Écosse
[postmark x 2:] PARIS À CALAIS / B / 15 / JUIL / 92
[postmark on verso:] GLASGOW / 159 / [13?] W / JY 16 / 92
[postmark on verso:] ARDROSSAN / 8 / JY 21 / 92


Notes:

1.  [15 July 1892]
Dated from postmark. Written on checked paper. This is a reply to Reid's letter of 11 July 1892, #05135.

2.  Alexander Reid
Alexander Reid (1854-1936), Glasgow dealer [more].

3.  ALS
A copy in the hand of Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more], is in GUL Whistler LB 4/64/2, along with a note that says that both this letter and #03226 were enclosed in the same envelope.

4.  open letter
See #02700.