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System Number: 08199
Date: [24/30 September 1891] [1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: David Croal Thomson[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 3/35
Document Type: ALS
'2B'
'Sept 1891'
21, CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA.
Dear Sir -
I send herewith the three small pictures - and I wish to add a word to what I said yesterday -
Kindly say to write to the house in Paris[3] - and say that I should not like these pictures to be openly exhibited at present, but that they are to be shown by themselves, as you would show them, to special clients in a very choice and careful way -
Very truly Yours
J McN. Whistler
Will you[4] be good enough to send me the address of the picture liner Mr. Richards[5] or Richardson? -
[p. 2] c/metres
| Opal[6] - | 23½ x 14 |
| Lapis | 26½ x 12½ |
| Rouge oil | 30 x 22½ |
| Landscape | 16 x 9¾ |
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Notes:
1. [24/30 September 1891]
'Sept 1891' (and '2B') are added in an unknown hand at the top of p. 1. This letter may be a reply to Thomson's letter of 23 September 1891, #05678, and relate to an undated note, #08197.
2. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
3. house in Paris
Boussod, Valadon & Cie (Goupil's), art dealers.
4. Will you ... Richardson? -
Added in left margin.
5. Mr. Richards
Stephen Richards (b. ca 1845), picture restorer [more].
6. Opal
This list (and the heading 'c/metres'), which is similar to #08197, is written very roughly in another hand. It possibly refers to Rose et Opale (M.1231), Blue and Violet. Lapis Lazuli (M.1070), Note in Red: The Siesta (YMSM 254) and Green and Gold: The Sloop (YMSM 368).