System Number: 05277
Date: 15 January 1887[1]
Author: Horace Henry Cauty[2]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler R173
Document Type: ALS
INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.
[circular crest with lion:] SBA
SUFFOLK STREET, PALL MALL EAST, S. W.
January 15 1887
Dear Whistler
I have to submit the names of the following five members for your approval as signatories to the bond to be given you for the loan of £500,
Kindly let me know and also communicate [with] Messrs Lewis[3] if you are agreeable to accept them
Yours truly
Horace H. Cauty
P T. O
[p. 2]
James S Hill[4]
E Aubrey Hunt[5]
David Law[6]
Mortimer L Menpes[7]
&. James MaCulloch[8] [sic]
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Notes:
1. 15 January 1887
This letter comes after a sequence of letters from G. H. Lewis to JW about his loan to the SBA (see for instance the letter of 16 December 1886, #02530).
2. Horace Henry Cauty
Horace Henry Cauty (1846-1909), historical and genre painter [more].
3. Messrs Lewis
The firm of Sir George Henry Lewis (1833-1911), society lawyer [more].
4. James S Hill
James Stevens Hill (1854-1921), artist [more].
5. E Aubrey Hunt
Edmund Aubrey Hunt (1855-1922), landscape and rural painter [more].
6. David Law
David Law (1831-1901), RBA treasurer, painter and etcher [more].
7. Mortimer L Menpes
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), artist [more].
8. James MaCullock
James Macculloch (d. 1915), landscape and watercolour painter [more].