System Number: 04660
Date: [21 October 1889][1]
Author: JW
Place: Amsterdam
Recipient: Philippa Maude Philip[2]
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P300
Document Type: ALS
MR. J. McNEILL WHISTLER,
21, CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA.
Dear Miss Maud -
I am going to make you a special request! -
You were so kind to me before, & helped me so much that I venture to again trouble you; and so I will ask you [to] look up those cuttings, if any of the books are [p. 2] still in Cheyne Walk, and whatever you can find relating to the Peacock Room[3], kindly send me here - Cut the leaves out bodily - fold them and post them in a large envelope -
Especially am I wanting a small paragraph refering [sic] to the price paid me -
Another little matter: Mrs Melhuish[4] has given up sending us the Detroit Free Press, & I am longing to see it -
Your grateful brother-in-law.
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
To.[5]Miss Philippa M. Philip
Dhu House -
36 Tite Street
Chelsea Embankment -
London -
England -
[stamp torn off]
[postmark:] AMSTERDAM / 11-12V / 21 / OCT / 89
Notes:
1. [21 October 1889]
Dated from postmark.
2. Philippa Maude Philip
Philippa Maude Philip (1865-1915), JW's sister-in-law [more].
3. Peacock Room
Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (YMSM 178).
4. Mrs Melhuish
Mrs Melhuish, unidentified.
5. To.
The envelope was addressed by Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].