UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

System Number: 11059
Date: [9 December 1900]^[1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Louise Kinsella^[2]
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler K46
Document Type: ALS^[3]

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GARLANT'S HOTEL,
SUFFOLK STREET,
PALL MALL.

TELEGRAMS,
DELICIOUS,
LONDON.

Dear Miss Kinsella -

I had hoped to reach you this afternoon - but it was impossible -

Your note is so charming and it will be a delight to see you and your Sister^[4] again - But I cannot lunch - for my few mornings are taken up - and I [p. 2] am to run off for a short trip by Thursday or Friday - -

I must just come in to you some afternoon, & beg a cup of tea! say on Wednesday or Tuesday -

It is some of this fog I have in my throat! and the Doctor says I must get into the sea air^[5] for a week or two -

With many kindest messages, to you both
Always Sincerely

J. McNeill Whistler -

Sunday -

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Envelope:

To
Miss Louise Kinsella
20. Half Moon Street
Piccadilly -
[stamp:] POSTAGE AND INLAND REVENUE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON / S. W. / 12.15 AM / DE 10 / 00
[postmark on verso:] LONDON. W / 7.AM / DE 10 / [...]

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Notes:

1.  [9 December 1900]
Dated from postmark and day of week; the letter was written on Sunday 9 December and bears the early morning postmark of the next day.

2.  Louise Kinsella
Louise Kinsella (d. 1923), patron of JW [more]. JW had been working on her portrait (Rose et vert: L'Iris - Portrait of Miss Kinsella (YMSM 420)) since 1894.

3.  ALS
Written on mourning stationery.

4.  Sister
Katherine ('Kate') Kinsella, artist (fl. 1898-1935), later the Marquess Presbitero [more].

5.  sea air
JW left for the Mediterranean a few days later (see his letter to R. B. Philip, [15 December 1900], #04782).