System Number: 13590
Date: [15 January 1892?][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac[2]
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Call Number: Nouv. Acq. Fr. 15335, f.40.
Document Type: ALS[3]
21 CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA.
Je compte quiter [sic] Chelsea jeudi soir – et l'installation[4] pourrait s'accomplir cette semaine – et nous commencerions à notre aise (enfin!) le dimanche ou le lundi – sans fog et sans reproche! –
Et vous – O Poète – Tout va bien – n'est-ce pas? -
A bientôt! –
[butterfly signature]
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Translation:
I intend to leave Chelsea on Thursday evening – and the installation could be carried out this week – and we would begin at our leisure (finally!) on Sunday or Monday – free from fog and reproaches! –
And for you – Oh Poet –
All is well – is it not? –
Until the next time! –
Notes:
1. [15 January 1892?]
Dated by reference to studio (see below).
2. Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921), Symbolist writer and poet, and collector [more].
3. ALS
Published in Newton, Joy, La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon. Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler, Glasgow, 1990, no. 71, p. 140.
4. l'installation
In the studio of Joseph-Félix Bouchor (1853-1937), genre and landscape painter [more]. JW was continuing the portrait Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (YMSM 398).