System Number: 05924
Date: 4 September 1900
Author: George Washington Vanderbilt[1]
Place: Biltmore
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler V13
Document Type: ALS[2]
[embossed:] BILTMORE HOUSE,
BILTMORE, NORTH CAROLINA.
Cher Maître
How are you.
We have thought & spoken of you so often this winter. We have been here through the year (so you see I can rest in one spot for a period) [p. 2] and on Aug 22nd a daughter[3] was born to us whom we will hope to show to you this winter as we expect to come abroad in November.
[p. 3] Perhaps we will catch you in London as you are often there at that season & we will stop in London ten days or so en route for the continent.
Please give our regards to both Mrs & Miss Philip[4].
I am looking [p. 4] forward with the greatest pleasure to seeing you again
and am yours devotedly & affectionately
George Vanderbilt
Sept 4. 1900
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Notes:
1. George Washington Vanderbilt
George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914), collector [more].
2. ALS
Written on narrow bordered mourning paper.
3. daughter
Cornelia Vanderbilt (1900-1976), daughter of G. W. and E. S. Vanderbilt [more]; JW may have painted her (see Portrait of a Baby (YMSM 549)).
4. Mrs & Miss Philip
Frances Philip (1824-1917), née Black, JW's mother-in-law [more] and Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more].