System Number: 03247
Date: [10 September 1893][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Alexander Reid[2]
Place: Glasgow
Repository: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Call Number: FGA Whistler 232
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: AWS
[telegraph form:]
110. Rue du Bac. Paris
Tuesday.
My dear Mr Reid -
Do manage to come to me in the morning - I will be at the studio and expecting you at 11. o'clock - We can look at the things - and talk and then we will come back together and breakfast here at half past 12 - You see I have a sitting from Mr Cowan[3] at 2 - o'clock - and as he has come over here on purpose and has n't a day to spare I am obliged to go on with him - I trust you will arrange it all right to meet me in this way for I would be greatly disappointed if there were[4] any hitch about my seeing you -
Always Sincerely
[butterfly signature]
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Envelope:
TÉLÉGRAMME
'380'
'[illegible]'
Monsieur Alexander Reid6. Place d'Anvers, 6 -
PARIS
[pre-printed stamp]
[postmark:] PARIS - 80 / RUE DU BAC / 10 SEPT 93
Notes:
1. Alexander Reid
Alexander Reid (1854-1936), Glasgow dealer [more].
2. [10 September 1893]
The date is not clear since either JW wrote down the wrong day of the week or the postmark is wrong: the postmark gives a date of 10 September but the almanac identifies the nearest Tuesday as 5 or 12 September.
3. Mr. Cowan
John James Cowan (1846-1936), paper manufacturer and collector [more], who was posing for Arrangement in Grey and Green: Portrait of J. J. Cowan (YMSM 402).
4. were...
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