System Number: 09793
Date: [30 July 1899][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Pourville-sur-Mer]
Recipient: Edward Guthrie Kennedy[2]
Place: London
Repository: New York Public Library
Call Number: E. G. Kennedy II/129
Credit Line: Edward Guthrie Kennedy Papers / Manuscripts and Archives Division / The New York Public Library / Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Document Type: ALS[3]
O.K! my dear
Your letters[4] have been delightful! but I cannot understand about Hamburg -
I have always been told it is a most picturesque place - almost, in its canals, a sort of Northern Venice - and here you say it is absurd and ugly - Well - this place has, I believe, done me great good - but there is nothing to paint! and so I am getting awfully fidgetty [sic]!
[p. 2] In a few days doubtless I shall get away - I mean run across - I wanted to go to Holland - Dortrecht - where much may be done -
Ludovici[5] is there - and his class of pupils I believe with him! À propos of pupils I have had the "indentures" made out! and the "Apprentice[6]" bound over for five years! - What do you think of that! - and this is only the beginning
A wonderful document was the parchment, with signs & seals quite mediaeval! -
Miss Hensman[7] I gave your parcel of proofs which I had put the Butterflies upon And then there comes somebody from the other Gutekunst[8] asking for them - bringing a card from you! -
However they remain down stairs in Miss Hensmans care -
In great haste this is! -
Always, O K.
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
'July 30, 1899'
ToO K - Kennedy - Esq
Garlants Hotel
Suffolk Street - Pall Mall -
London
Angleterre
[stamp:] [POSTE / 25 / REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE]
[postmark:] DIEPPE / SEINE INFRE / [13E?] 30 / JUIL / 99
[postmark on flap:] LONDON S. W. / 53 / 10.15.AM / JY 31 / 99
Notes:
1. [30 July 1899]
Dated from the postmark, and the date written in another hand on the envelope.
2. Edward Guthrie Kennedy
Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), dealer with H. Wunderlich and Co., New York [more]. JW called him O'K.
3. ALS
4. letters
The last, written from Hamburg, was that of 25 July 1899, #07313.
5. Ludovici
Albert Ludovici, Jr (1852-1932), painter [more].
6. Apprentice
Inez Eleanor Addams (fl. 1898-1927), née Bate, painter [more], had signed her Indentures as JW's apprentice on 20 July 1899, #00019.
7. Miss Hensman
Miss A. Hensman, an employee at Garlant's Hotel [more].
8. Gutekunst
Otto Gutekunst (b. ca 1865 - after 1939), art dealer [more].