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System Number: 07689
Date: [26 January 1900][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Elizabeth Robins Pennell[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 273/4/2
Document Type: ALS


Wonderful! isn't it!! -

"La[3] Victoire d'un jour" as the Temps[4] has it!

Now I think it time you had this - You must have them both mounted and framed -

Do write -

[butterfly signature]

Chatham[5] -


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Envelope:

To
Mrs Joseph Pennell.
14. Buckingham Street
Strand
London.
[stamp:] POSTE / 25 / REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
[stamp:] POSTE / 5 / REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
[postmark:] PARIS / R. DES CAPUCINES / E3 26 / JANV / 00
[postmark on verso:] LONDON. W. / X / [...] / 00


Notes:

1.  [26 January 1900]
Dated from postmark.

2.  Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936), née Robins, JW's biographer [more].

3.  La ... jour
A note written on the letter by E. R. Pennell reads: 'One of the Caran D'Ache cartoons came with this letter, which gives its title so that it can be easily identified -'.

4.  Temps
Fr., Times. A French newspaper, featuring news on the Boer War (1899-1902).

5.  Chatham
Hotel Chatham, Paris.