System Number: 11396
Date: 7 October [1880][1]
Author: JW
Place: Venice
Recipient: Philip Gilbert Hamerton[2]
Place: [France]
Repository: [Published][3]
Document Type: PLc
Venice,
Oct. 7.
Café Florian, Place San Marc.
Pardon! Is Mr Whistler right in supposing, from the droll little irritation shown in Mr Hamerton's note, that Mr Hamerton is perhaps - another "Art Critic"?
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Notes:
1. 7 October [1880]
Year date from address - JW was in Venice for much of 1880.
2. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834-1894), author, critic and artist [more]. This relates to a sequence of letters initiated by JW's response to Hamerton's article on Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), surgeon and etcher, JW's brother-in-law [more], which appeared in Scribner's Magazine in September 1880. It replies to Hamerton's letter of 28 September 1880 (P. G. Hamerton to JW, #11395). See also P. G. Hamerton to Editor, New York Tribune, #11397 and JW to Editor, New York Tribune, #04281.
3. [Published]
The letter sequence was published in Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd ed., London and New York, 1892, pp. 81-9.