System Number: 09242
Date: 27 January 1888
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Octave Maus[1]
Place: [Brussels]
Repository: Archives de l'Art Contemporain en Belgique, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles
Call Number: Fonds Vander Linden, archives Octave Maus, 5075
Document Type: ALS
[logo with crowned lion:] R. B. A.
THE / ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.
SUFFOLK STREET, PALL MALL,
LONDON
Jan 27 1888.
Are you at all aware, my dear preoccupied Mr. Secretary, that you have never sent me the sheet of prepared paper[2] upon which to write? -
Also I have of course no longer the size of the page - or in short any guide in the matter! -
The pictures[3] have gone, by Grande Vitesse -
My etchings of Bruxelles[4] are not yet [p. 2] ready - so I send you some new ones of London[5] -
Kindly write me a line at once to say that it is all right -
I still hope to come over to see you -
Always sincerely
J. McN. Whistler
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Notes:
1. Octave Maus
Octave Maus (1856-1919), advocate, writer and art critic [more]. This letter must not be published in and form without the prior written consent of the owner. See Maus' reply, #05490, and JW to Maus, #09237.
2. prepared paper
A reference to the catalogue of the [Exhibition], Société des XX (Vingts), Brussels, 1888. JW had been asked to design a sheet of his own listing his entries. A facsimile of this appeared in the catalogue.
3. pictures
JW sent eight works to the exhibition. These included Arrangement in Black and Brown: The Fur Jacket (YMSM 181) and St.James's Place, Houndsditch (K.290).
4. etchings of Bruxelles
Probably from a group of etchings which date from JW's stay in Brussels during the autumn of 1887, 'Belgian set', 1887 (K.349-367) (excat 8).
5. London
As well as St.James's Place, Houndsditch (K.290), the London etchings included The Young Tree (K.296) and The Little Nurse (K.302).