System Number: 09230
Date: 8 June [1894][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Duncan McCorkindale[2]
Place: Isle of Bute
Repository: Private Collection
Document Type: ALS
110. Rue du Bac - Paris.
June 8.
Dear Mr McCorkindale -
I am so pleased to know that the little picture[3] is at last safe with you - and that you like it -
They tell me that you were disappointed in not seeing the "Fire Wheel" at Antwerp[4] -
It appears to have been delayed on its way from Hamburg[5] - but [p. 2] a man told me the other day that he has since seen it, beautifully placed in the Exposition in Antwerp - So thats all right -
If I still have it at the end of the exhibition & you want to see it I could send it up to you -
Very sincerely
J McNeill Whistler
The Bank has just sent me the enclosed[6] - I suppose you forgot something - & they are so particular! -
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
[registered letter:] Recommandé[7]To
D. McCorkindale Esq
Glendermott -
Rothesay.
Isle of Bute
N. B.
Grande Brétagne
[stamp x 2:] POSTE / 10 / REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE
[postmark:] PARIS 80 / R[UE] DU BAC / 6 8 / JUIN / 94
[postmark:] REGISTER[ED] / LONDON / [illegible] / 9 JU 94
[postmark on verso:] GREENOCK / 5 T / JU 9 / 94
Notes:
1. 8 June [1894]
Dated from the postmark.
2. Duncan McCorkindale
Dugal, Dugald or Duncan McCorkindale, ironfounder and collector [more].
3. little picture
Study: Woman and child (M.1286); see also #09232, #09228, #09229.
4. Fire Wheel at Antwerp
Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel (YMSM 169) was exhibited at Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, 1894 .
5. Hamburg
Grossen Kunst-Austellung des Kunst-Vereins, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1894.
6. enclosed
Possibly an incorrectly written cheque. On 15 June 1894, JW writes to McCorkindale 'I have received the cheque all right' (#09231).
7. Recommandé
Fr., registered mail. Underlined three times.