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The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler
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System Number: 07620
Date: [May 1881/1882][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Joseph Edgar Boehm[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 3/21/4
Document Type: ALS


HOGARTH CLUB,
27, ALBEMARLE ST.
W.

Lieber Mac[3] -

I am going to trouble you in quite a new way! -

A great and devoted friend is most anxious that George McCullough[4] should obtain the Curatorship at the Royal Academy - It appears that this is the moment for candidates being voted for - and the McCullough is in every way [p. 2] efficient and proper for the post -

If you were to say a word to some of the right people, he might possibly get it - indeed doubtless anyone would be very glad to know who to vote for! -

When are you going to look in? -

Always -

[butterfly signature]

13. Tite Street
Chelsea


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Notes:

1.  [May 1881/1882]
Dated from butterfly signature and address.

2.  Joseph Edgar Boehm
Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890), sculptor [more].

3.  Mac
One of JW's nicknames for Boehm, but see also #00324 and #09213.

4.  George McCullough
George McCulloch (d. 1915), landscape painter [more].