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The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler
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System Number: 05766
Date: 12 January 1893
Author: David Croal Thomson[1]
Place: London
Recipient: Beatrix Whistler[2]
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler T111
Document Type: MsLS


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THE GOUPIL GALLERY
BOUSSOD, VALADON & CO.
116 & 117, NEW BOND STREET. W.
TELEGRAMS, - BOUSSOD, LONDON.

Jan. 12th / 93

Madam,

We beg to enclose the reply we have received from Mr Graham Robertson[3] who unfortunately cannot part with his picture[4].

Lady Meux[5] is out of town but we wrote her a letter which has been forwarded on.

Yours faithfully

p p [stamped:] BOUSSOD VALADON & CO.

D C Thomson

MANAGER.

Mrs Whistler


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Notes:

1.  David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more]. A clerk wrote this letter, which Thomson signed.

2.  Beatrix Whistler
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].

3.  Mr Graham Robertson
Walford Graham Robertson (1867-1948), painter, designer and collector [more].

4.  picture
Robertson had written refusing to lend Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green: Valparaiso (YMSM 73) to World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893, #05198.

5.  Lady Meux
Lady Valerie Susan ('Susie') Meux (1847-1910), née Langdon, collector and patroness [more], refused to lend either Arrangement in Black: Lady Meux (YMSM 228) or Harmony in Pink and Grey: Portrait of Lady Meux (YMSM 229) (see V. Meux to Goupil and Co., 13 January 1893, #04076).