Documents associated with: marriage (JW and BW)
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System Number: 04384
Date: [28 June 1888][1]
Author: [John?] Morley[2]
Place: [London]
Recipient: JW
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P23
Document Type: W
[telegraph form:] POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
[postmark:] CHELSEA - S. W. / JU28 / 88
HANDED IN AT THE } West Strand OFFICE AT 12 38 p.M., RECEIVED HERE AT } 12 55 p.M.
Reply Paid
TO { Whistler 13. Flat
Tower House Tite St
Stephens review[3] says you are to lead Mrs Godwin[4] to altar[.] May we confirm or contradict
Morley
'Reply paid'[5]
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Notes:
1. 28 June 1888
Dated by postmark.
2. [John?] Morley
John Morley (1838-1923), Viscount Morley of Blackburn, MP, barrister, editor of the Fortnightly Review from 1867-1880, and the Pall Mall Gazette from 1880-1883 [more], or perhaps Charles Morley (1853-1916), journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette [more].
3. Stephens review
St Stephen's Review of Facts and Fancies, Thoughts, Realities and Shams, a London periodical.
4. Mrs Godwin
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more]. The marriage took place on 11 August 1888 at St Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington.
5. 'Reply paid'
Written in another hand in the lower right corner.