System Number: 11597
Date: [2 June 1902][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Charles Lang Freer[2]
Place: London
Repository: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Call Number: FGA Whistler 57
Credit Line: Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of the Estate of Charles Lang Freer
Document Type: W[3]
[telegraph form:] POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS
[postmark:] CHARLES ST. / HAYMARKET. S. W. / * / JU 2 / 02
HANDED IN AT } Kings Rd A AT 2.15 p.M., RECEIVED HERE AT } 2.38 p.M.
TO { Freer Carlton Hotel
Haymkt
Vanderbilt[4] sitting this afternoon shall I dine with you tonight
Whistler
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Notes:
1. 2 June 1902
Dated from the postmark.
2. Charles Lang Freer
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), industrialist, collector and founder of the Freer Gallery of Art [more].
3. W
Published in Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington and London, 1995, p. 160, no. 64.
4. Vanderbilt
George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914), collector [more]. JW was painting the Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt (YMSM 481); see also Portrait of George Vanderbilt (M.1505); G. Vanderbilt to JW, 18 May 1897, #05914, and JW's reply, #09488.