System Number: 09263
Date: 12 October 1897
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Editor[1], the Daily Mail
Place: London
Repository: Published
Document Type: PLc[2]
Sir, -
In these days of doubtful frequentations, it is my rare good fortune to be able to send you an unsolicited, official, and final certificate of character.
And I am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
J. McNeill Whistler.
October 12, 1897.
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Notes:
1. Editor
Unidentified.
2. PLc
On 21 September, JW was sent a circular in an envelope, addressed to him at the Royal Academy (see L. Pierro to JW, #13247). He sent the envelope to the Daily Mail where it was reproduced beneath this letter (see Whistler, James McNeill, 'Mr. Whistler's Character. Acquitted of Being Known at the Royal Academy,' The Daily Mail, 14 October 1897, p. 3). The envelope is also reproduced in Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, between pp. 14-15.