System Number: 09406
Date: [18 March 1894][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Walford Graham Robertson[2]
Place: Godalming
Repository: Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Document Type: ALS
110 Rue du Bac. Paris.
Just a line of immediate and most sincere thanks! -
It is really very nice of you to lend the pictures[3] - all details and guarantees will follow directly -
Messrs Dicksee[4] of Ryder Street are the appointed packers -
But now [p. 2] I must this instant bolt! Someone waiting by appointment at Studio!
Will write
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
'18 March 1894'[5]
'Sandhills[6]Witley'
Graham Robertson Esq
'Godalming'
[stamp:] POSTE / REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / 5
[postmark:] PARIS [illegible] / 195 B[OULEVAR]D ST GERMAIN / 7E [18?] / MARS / 94
Notes:
1. [18 March 1894]
Dated from postmark, and from the note in another hand on the envelope.
2. Walford Graham Robertson
Walford Graham Robertson (1867-1948), painter, designer and collector [more].
3. the pictures
Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder (YMSM 203) and Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green: Valparaiso (YMSM 73). JW had requested these pictures for Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, 1894 in a letter of 16 March 1894 (#09405).
4. Messrs. Dicksee
Packers and carriers.
5. Sandhills / Witley
The envelope was re-addressed in different hands.
6. '18 March 1894'
Written in another hand.