System Number: 08466
Date: [21 February 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: William Heinemann[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/5
Document Type: ALS[3]
'[1892]'
33. Rue de Tournon. Paris.
Sunday -
It just shows how preoccupied with further crime you must be my dear Publisher! -
Where if you please do [you] find in my letter[4] the ghastly proposal youof translating Mallarmé[5] for the British Public? -
Who should do this thing! -
Oh no - Read my beautiful little note again - et vous m'en direz des nouvelles[6] -
This is merely a word to fill you with anguish tomorrow morning!
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
ToWilliam Heinemann. Esq.
21. Bedford Street
Covent Garden -
London -
Angleterre
[stamp:] POSTE / 25 / REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
[postmark:] PARIS / RUE BONAPARTE / [4?] / 21 / FEVR / 92
[postmark on verso:] LONDON W. C. / [illegible] / FE 22 / 92
Notes:
1. [21 February 1892]
Dated from the postmark; the date '[1892]' has been added in another hand.
2. William Heinemann
William Heinemann (1863-1920), publisher [more].
3. ALS
Written in purple ink.
4. letter
Unidentified; see a related letter from JW to Heinemann, #10785.
5. Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), Symbolist writer and poet [more]. JW had proposed an edition of 'Quatrains' by Mallarmé, based on postal addresses.
6. et vous m'en direz des nouvelles
Fr., and you will understand the message.