System Number: 03326
Date: [8 September 1886][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell[2]
Place: London
Repository: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Call Number: FGA Whistler 8
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]
BEAUFORT[4] GRILL CLUB.
32. DOVER STREET. W.
Then I shall expect the lovely leopard tomorrow at 2.30
Harper Pennington[5] came in this afternoon and was completely saddened by the glory of the picture[6]!
[p. 2] [butterfly signature]
You will see in this week's Truth[7] a line I sent to restore the 'Sapeur[8]' to the understanding of the people - though what is the use? -
I hope She will be charming to us tomorrow - She can be so delightful! -
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
ToThe Lady Collin [sic] Campbell.
2. Victoria Mansions
Westminster
[stamp:] POSTAGE AND INLAND REVENUE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON W / 65 /7 / SP 8 / 86
[postmark on verso:] LONDON S.W. / O 7 / SP [...]8 /8[...]
Notes:
1. [8 September 1886]
Dated from the postmark.
2. Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell
Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell (1857-1911), née Blood, Lady Colin Campbell, writer, art critic and amateur artist [more].
3. ALS
A copy by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more], is in GUL MS Whistler LB 5/142/3-143/1.
4. BEAUFORT ... W.
Embossed address.
5. Harper Pennington
Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington (1854-1920), artist [more].
6. picture
Harmony in White and Ivory: Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell (YMSM 354).
7. this week's Truth
JW to H. Labouchère, 21 August 1886, published in Truth, no. 505, vol. 20, 2 September 1885, p. 370, and reprinted in Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London and New York, 1890, pp. 169-172 (#09184).
8. Sapeur
Fr., pioneer.