System Number: 07651
Date: [7 March 1898][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: Joseph Pennell[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 272/13/8
Document Type: ALS
You have only to sit hard and say nothing until you hear in some official way[3] -
Then you will know - though you will say nothing - that I had not forgotten.
A propos of "way", what of "Tom[4], the Printers Son"? - You have never told me[5] whether you still persevere with those people? .
[butterfly signature]
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Envelope:
[postcard:] Monsieur Joseph Pennell14. Buckingham Street.
Strand
London
Angleterre
[stamp:] POSTE / 10 / REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
[postmark:] PARIS / DEPART / 9E 7 / MARS / 98
[postmark:] BEDFORD STREET S. O. / W. C. / 7.30.PM / MR 8 / 98
Notes:
1. [7 March 1898]
Dated from the postmark.
2. Joseph Pennell
Joseph Pennell (1860-1926), printer and illustrator, JW's biographer [more].
3. official way
Pennell was invited to join the committee of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers; see his reply to JW, #04576.
4. Tom
Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), printer, lithographer and painter [more]. JW quarrelled with the Ways the previous year over some unfinished canvases that they had acquired for a guinea at the time of JW's bankruptcy. JW also owed the Ways a bill going back many years (see Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 133-34 and Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 131-39).
5. told me
The rest of the letter is written in the left margin at right angles to the main text.