System Number: 05263
Date: 29 May 1894
Author: Francis Powell[1]
Place: [Glasgow]
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler R159
Document Type: ALS
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THE ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY / OF / PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS
29 May 94
Dear Mr. Whistler
Though the Secretary[2] of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-colours will inform you that at a meeting of the Society yesterday you were elected an Honorary Member I venture to write expressing my personal pleasure in the election having for years been an ardent admirer of your fascinating [p. 2] painting and trust you will favour us whenever possible with some example[3] of your water colour work at our annual Exhibition -
Believe me
Yours faithfully
Francis Powell
President
James McNeil Whistler Esq. [&c. &c. &c.?]
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Notes:
1. Francis Powell
Francis Powell (1833-1914), painter, a founder and President of the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society [more].
2. Secretary
John Wright Robb (fl. 1887-1905), JP, accountant, of J. Wright Robb and Scobie, Secretary of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours, wrote to JW on 2 June 1894 to inform him of his election (#05264).
3. some example
JW probably sent Red and brown - Hoxton (M.1004) to the 19th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, Glasgow, 1896.