Documents associated with: publication, pamphlet
Record 8 of 15
System Number: 02545
Date: [April 1890][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: George Henry Lewis[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler L80
Document Type: ALdS
My dear George -
I can at once have printed, (it will take only about 5 or 6 hours) four small pages of letters, with title, which will make a Pamphlet - that is "Whistler's letters[3]" - being an abstract of a Work about to appear -
Which will be issued in May - etc. etc.
Before the opening of the Royal Academy -
etc- etc -
Published by Messrs Cape[4] & Co. 33. Bouverie Street -
[p. 2] Can you not instantly take out another an injunction preventing his Fords[5] publishing any thing of this matter as it is my property -
It is in every case my property - the letters - and the idea of publication -
Also can you not make him give up the data he has - for they were lent to him - Moreover among the letters were some that had not appeared in Print -
His address I have not yet discovered but one of your people soon could - but any letter if registered care of J McClure Hamilton[6], 14. Alpha Road. N. W.
I could also at once have the copy right secured in America - and so chequemate [sic] Mr Ford all round and leave him with the expenses he has incurred -
[butterfly signature]
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Notes:
1. [April 1890]
Dated by reference to publication (see below), and from the mention of the forthcoming 'May'.
2. George Henry Lewis
Sir George Henry Lewis (1833-1911), society lawyer [more].
3. Whistler's letters
Eventually published as Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London and New York, 1890.
4. Cape
Publishers.
5. Fords
Sheridan Ford (1860-1922), poet, critic, politician and writer on art [more]. JW was trying to prevent distribution of Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, ed. Sheridan Ford, Paris, 1890.
6. J McClure Hamilton
John McClure Hamilton (1853-1936), artist [more].