System Number: 11844
Date: 20 March 1866
Author: Joanna Hiffernan[1]
Place: London
Recipient: James Anderson Rose[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscripts Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 2/47/47
Document Type: ALS
14 Walham Grove[3],
Fulham,
March 20th 66
Dear Sir,
I received your note[4] and will call on you tomoro [sic] at three OClock if quiet [sic] convenient and talk about Mr Keene[5].
Very Sincerely -
Yours,
Joanna Hiffernan
Tuesday Morning
To J. Anderson Rose
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
J.Anderson Rose Esqr11 Salisbury Street
Strand
London
[stamp:] POSTAGE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON SW / 3 / MR20 / 66
[circular monogram on verso of clenched fist, sword and motto:] VINCERE AUT MORI[6]
Notes:
1. Joanna Hiffernan
Joanna Hiffernan (b. ca 1843), JW's model and mistress [more].
2. James Anderson Rose
James Anderson Rose (1819-1890), solicitor [more].
3. Walham Grove
Joanna Hiffernan had been living with JW at 7 Lindsey Row. but when Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881), née McNeill, JW's mother [more], arrived to stay with JW in 1863, she moved to this address.
4. note
Untraced.
5. Mr Keene
Isaac Henry Keene, builder, landlord of 7 Lindsey Row [more].
6. VINCERE AUT MORI
'VINCERE AUT MORI' (Lat., 'conquer or die') under a mailed arm and hand holding a dagger, is the crest and motto of the McNeills of Colonsay, to whom JW was not related. He used the crest several times at this period, see, for example, #08988.