System Number: 09409
Date: [18 March 1899][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Walford Graham Robertson[2]
Place: Whitley
Repository: Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Call Number: WR 659
Credit Line: © The Huntington Library
Document Type: ALS[3]
CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA.
110, RUE DU BAC.
With
MR. J. McNEILL WHISTLER,s
compliments & best thanks for Graham Robertson's [p. 2] great courtesy in the Venice matter[4], and for his very nice letter -
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
Angleterre[5]
'March 1899'
ToGraham Robertson - Esq -
Sandhills - Whitley
Goldalming
Surrey -
[stamp:] POSTE / 25 / [REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE]
[postmark:] PARIS-80 / R. DU BAC / 4E 18 / MARS / 99
Notes:
1. 18 March 1899
Dated by the postmark and the date written in another hand on the envelope.
2. Walford Graham Robertson
Walford Graham Robertson (1867-1948), painter, designer and collector [more], owned Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder (YMSM 203) and Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green: Valparaiso (YMSM 73).
3. ALS
Written on JW's visiting card.
4. Venice matter
Walford Graham Robertson (1867-1948), painter, designer and collector [more] agreed to lend Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green: Valparaiso (YMSM 73) to 3rd Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia,Venice, 1899.
5. Angleterre
Triple-underlined.