UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

System Number: 02845
Date: [10/24 October 1878]^[1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Richard Holmes^[2]
Place: Windsor
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 12/17/2-16/2
Document Type: ALS^[3]

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Dear Holmes -

Let me introduce my friend Mr Howell^[4], who is going to Windsor and will tell you all about the Mezzotint from my picture of Carlyle^[5] - Also I wish you would come and breakfast on Sunday the 27th. Oct -

Ever Yours -

J A McN. Whistler

The White House -
Tite Street -
Chelsea Embankment. -

This document is protected by copyright.

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Envelope:

Richard Holmes Esq
Windsor Castle -

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Notes:

1.  [10/24 October 1878]
This is an invitation to 'Sunday breakfast' on 27 October and probably dates from within the previous two weeks. 27 October fell on a Sunday in 1878.

2.  Richard Holmes
Richard Rivington Holmes (1835-1911), Librarian at Windsor Castle and Sergeant at Arms to Queen Victoria [more].

3.  ALS
The letter was stuck in the first of two albums of documents by C. A. Howell (see #02788).

4.  Mr Howell
Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more].

5.  Mezzotint from my picture of Carlyle
Howell had acquired the copyright of Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137), and organised subscriptions for the engraving by Richard Josey (1840-1906), reproductive engraver [more], published by H. Graves and Co. (see #02785).