System Number: 08494
Date: [17 October / November 1898][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: William Heinemann[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC
Document Type: ALS[3]
'[1899]'
'Before Publ.'
In awful haste -
One or two little Butterflies must for the moment be taken from Gentle Art[4] - as I have shown - Pauling[5] has copy in Bedford Street -
I have attended to page 33 - The text will now be quite clear with the dashes instead of commas -
Rest all right! So once more fire away! -
Expected telegram today [p. 2] None came so suppose all right -
The reason why revise posted by Payne[6] on Friday night was late was, as I told you before, that it was not sent in closed envelope as a letter -
Always affectly
J McN Whistler
110. Rue du Bac -
Do wire tomorrow that this is all right -
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Notes:
1. [17 October / November 1898]
Dated from the address and the reference to proofs (see below). Another hand has inserted a note on the date at the top.
2. William Heinemann
William Heinemann (1863-1920), publisher [more]. This letter relates to the publication of JW's account of his dispute with Sir William Eden (1849-1915), painter and collector [more] over Brown and Gold: Portrait of Lady Eden (YMSM 408): Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: the Baronet & the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, London, 1898. See JW to Heinemann, [18 October 1898], #09143. The book was finally published in Paris in May 1899: Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris and New York, 1899 [GM, A.24].
3. ALS
The paper has a mourning border.
4. Gentle Art
Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd ed., London and New York, 1892.
5. Pauling
A misspelling of Sidney Southgate Pawling (d. 1922), business partner of the publisher W. H. Heinemann [more]. Heinemann's office was in Bedford Street.
6. Payne
Payne, employee or servant of W. Heinemann.