System Number: 13542
Date: [8 March 1901[1]]
Author: JW
Place: Ajaccio
Recipient: Madame Saleron[2]
Place: Paris
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P437
Document Type: ALSc
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Recommandée[3]
à
Madame}
Madame Saleron}
110. Rue du Bac -}
Paris -}
Envelope -
Madame -
J'ai l'honneur de vous envoyer mes sympathies, et ... 25. francs!
Mon Avoué[4] a mes instructions -
Vous avez été, parait-il, Madame, d'une audace, et d'une inconvenante invention, vraiment admirable! -
Avec mes vifs regrets de ne pas avoir pu assister à ce spectacle,
Veuillez agréer, Madame, l'expression de ma pas haute, et distinguée appréciation
J. McNeill Whistler
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Notes:
1. 8 March 1901
This was enclosed in a letter from JW to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more], which is so dated, #04797.
2. Saleron
Mme Saleron, JW's neighbour at 110 rue du Bac [more]. There had been a long standing dispute between the neighbours, with JW accusing Mme Saleron of beating carpets over their garden, and she stating that JW had nude models in the garden.
3. Recommandée
Triple underlined.
4. avoue
Antoine ('Antony') Ratier (b. 1851), lawyer and politician [more]. JW had been advised by Ratier to settle (see his letter to Ratier, on the following day, 9 March 1901, #05111.