Documents associated with: oil painting, sale
Record 20 of 334
System Number: 10930
Date: [c. 8 October 1884][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Henry Graves[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Call Number: f MS A 1412
Credit Line: Published by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University
Document Type: ALS
Dear Mr Graves -
I am so glad you have had the letters of which you sent me the copies[3] -
Do you think it could do me what you call 'good' to be kept before a Public like that -
Do please send me tomorrow morning the letter from the Scotsman[4] [p. 2] you promised to lend me - I will return it on Monday - but I want very much to have it tomorrow without fail -
Very truly Yours
J McNeill Whistler
Send the letter to the following address
"The Vale".
Kings Road. Chelsea
by Paulton Square
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Notes:
1. [c. 8 October 1884]
This letter probably comes soon after the two copies mentioned; see note below.
2. Henry Graves
Henry Graves (1806-1892), print dealer and founder of H. Graves and Co. [more].
3. copies
G. R. Halkett to The Scotsman, 3 October 1884 (#11748), and W. Hole to The Scotsman, 6 October 1884 (#11749). The subject was the possible acquisition of Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137) for a Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
4. letter from the Scotsman
Not traced.