System Number: 03470
Date: [25 June 1888][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: James Stanley Little[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 7/18
Document Type: MsLd[3]
[Dr. S.?] I have I beg to ack[nowledge] the receipt of your note and
Dear Sir,
I beg that you will convey pray present my compliments to the gentlemen of the Committee and say that I certainly I shall have great it will give me great pleasure to see my name on the list of stewards for the dinner[4] proposed.
And I have
Dear Sirthe honour to be Yours faithfully
Your obedient, humble Servant
J. McN. Whistler.
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Notes:
1. [25 June 1888]
Dated from JW to J. S. Little, #09166.
2. James Stanley Little
James Stanley Little (1856-1940), novelist, historian, art critic, editor of Public Opinion [more]. This is a draft letter for #09166.
3. MsLd
Written in pencil on JW's behalf by Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more]. Above this letter draft is the following note (apparently unconnected with the letter): 'Mr Van Wagner has holds this year again his great "egg-nogg" party on the "fourth of July" / Mr Van Wagner holds this year again his great "egg-nogg" party on "the fourth of July" - I hear that it will be [...]'.
4. dinner
Unidentified.