System Number: 06098
Date: 15 December 1892
Author: Thomas Robert Way[1]
Place: London
Recipient: Beatrix Whistler[2]
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W95
Document Type: ALS[3]
LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING OFFICE,
21, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W. C.
LONDON,
Decr 15 1892
Dear Mrs Whistler
About a fortnight ago I sent to Mr Whistler a quantity of transfer paper, as you requested in your letter, may I ask if it has arrived safely?
I hope it has, but I write to ask as you mentioned that he was kind enough to say that he was sending an impression of his latest lithograph, the portrait of Stephaniè Malarme[4] [sic], to my father[5], and as it has not arrived we are uncertain whether it has [p. 2] been lost in transit or not yet sent.
I have been asked by a gentleman interested in a new art magazine[6], what Mr Whistler would be likely to charge for a lithograph similar to the Whirlwind[7] & Albemale [sic] drawings but of course to pay for the entire rights[.] I imagine it would be issued in a similar manner with fine proofs in addition - If you could give me some idea I should be prepared on any future occasion, and could put any likely persons in communication with him.
With kind regards to you both
Yours very sincerely
Tom. R. Way.
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Notes:
1. Thomas Robert Way
Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), printer, lithographer and painter [more].
2. Beatrix Whistler
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].
3. ALS
Published in Spink, Nesta R., The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, gen. eds Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi, Chicago, 1998, vol. 2, p. 32, no. 40.
4. Stephaniè Malarme
Stéphane Mallarmé (C.60).
5. father
Thomas Way (1837-1915), lithographic printer [more].
6. art magazine
Probably The Studio, which published Gants de suède (C.35) in April 1894.
7. Whirlwind
The Winged Hat (C.34) was the first of three lithographs to be published in The Whirlwind: A Lively and Eccentric Newspaper, 25 October 1890, under the title "Mr Whistler's 'Songs on Stone'." It was followed by The Tyresmith (C.36) and Maunder's Fish Shop, Chelsea (C.37) in November and December. Chelsea Rags (C.26) was published in the Albemarle, January 1892 as 'Song on Stone'.