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The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler
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System Number: 04076
Date: 13 January 1893
Author: Valerie Meux[1]
Place: Waltham Cross
Recipient: Goupil Gallery
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P346
Document Type: ALS


NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT.[2]

STATION & TELEGRAMS,
WALTHAM CROSS.
1½ MILES.

THEOBALDS PARK,
WALTHAM CROSS,
HERTS.

Jan. 13th 1893

Dear Sirs

In answer to your letter of the 11th inst we are unable to comply with your request now or at [p. 2] any future time, as we have decided not to lend the "Pink Picture[3]" again having had to have it re-framed since it was last lent [p. 3] We are surprised that Mr Whistler should have permitted you to make this request

Yrs faithfully

V. B. Meux

To the Goupil Gallery

[p. 4, date stamp:] GOUPIL & COMPANY / 14 JAN. 93 / SUCCESSORS / BOUSSOD VALADON & CO.


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Notes:

1.  Valerie Meux
Lady Valerie Susan ('Susie') Meux (1847-1910), née Langdon, collector and patroness [more].

2.  NEMO ME ... HERTS.
This letterhead is embossed upon the page. The Latin motto, 'No one provokes me with impunity' is the motto of the Order of the Thistle.

3.  Pink Picture
JW had wanted Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux (YMSM 229) for World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893.