System Number: 03569
Date: [December 1901/January 1902][1]
Author: JW
Place: Bath
Recipient: Charles James Singleton[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 8/25
Document Type: ALS[3]
7. Marlborough Street
Bath -
My dear Charlie -
You see I am away again! and so I cannot be with you at dinner yet awhile - as otherwise I should have well liked - which, by the way, seems to me rather odd English for classic Bath!
Make my apologies to [p. 2] Agnes[4] - and when I run up again, if you are not off to Ireland, I will come and stay in the nice room she so kindly had made ready for me! -
And now there is a little thing you might do for me - I want you to send your excellent man with my umbrella to Mr Robert Dicker[5], the old silversmiths, No. 8. Vigo Street, out of Bond Street -
They are going to put a silver plate on the handle - and expect it -
So he will only have to leave it from me -
As it is so close by, I venture to trouble thus much - and many thanks before hand -
With kindest regards to you both
Always sincerely
J McNeill Whistler
you know my dear Charlie how I sympathize with you in this your great sorrow!
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Notes:
1. [December 1901/January 1902]
Dated from the address. JW spent some weeks convalescing from illness in Bath from December 1901.
2. Charles James Singleton
Charles James Singleton, Jr (1841-1918), accountant [more]. The nature of Singleton's 'sorrow' is unknown.
3. ALS
The paper has a mourning border. Published in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 10 December 1923, lot 406; 11 April 1927, lot 257.
4. Agnes
Bridget Agnes Hiffernan (1844/1845-after 1919), mistress and later wife of C. J. Singleton, and sister of Joanna Hiffernan [more].
5. Robert Dicker
Robert Dicker (ca 1827-1900), silversmith [more].