Documents associated with: plagiarism
Record 9 of 20
System Number: 03790
Date: [3 January 1890][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Stéphane Mallarmé[2]
Place: Paris
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler M124
Document Type: ALS[3]
Voici mon cher Mallarmé -
le petit papillon en question!!
Faites le inserrer dans le journal du Docteur Evans[4] tout de suite - n'est ce pas? Et dans le New York Herald aussi -
Toujours à vous
[butterfly signature]
On pourrait mettre comme [p. 2] entête:
Whistler's latest scalp.
We take from the London "Truth" the following letter[5]:
This document is protected by copyright.
Translation:
Here you are, my dear Mallarmé - the little butterfly in question.!
Have it put into Doctor Evans' newspaper immediately - would you? And into the New York Herald too -
Always yours
[signature symbol]
They could put as a heading:
Whistler's latest scalp.
We take from the London «Truth» the following letter:
Envelope:
àMonsieur Stéphane Mallarmé
Rue de Rome No. 89.
Paris.
France.
[two stamps, removed]
[postmark:] LONDON S. W / Z / JA 3 / 90
Notes:
1. [3 January 1890]
Dated from postmark. Written at the top of page one in another hand is the following: 'Londres 3 janvier 90'.
2. Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), Symbolist writer and poet [more].
3. ALS
Published in Barbier, Carl P., ed., Correspondance Mallarmé-Whistler: Histoire de la grande amitié de leurs dernières années, Paris, 1964 [GM, A.28], no. XXIV, p. 46.
4. Docteur Evans
Dr Thomas William (or Wiltberger) Evans (1830-1897), dentist, publisher of the American Register [more].
5. letter
Truth, 2 January 1890, published a letter from JW, accusing Oscar Wilde of plagiarism. The text of the letter was reprinted in American Register, 11 January 1890, under the suggested heading, but without the butterfly signature.