Documents associated with: sea pieces
Record 18 of 30
System Number: 09705
Date: [17 April 1893][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Edward Guthrie Kennedy[2]
Place: London
Repository: New York Public Library
Call Number: E. G. Kennedy I/38
Credit Line: Edward Guthrie Kennedy Papers / Manuscripts and Archives Division / The New York Public Library / Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Document Type: ALS
110. Rue du Bac - Paris.
Dear Mr Kennedy -
Many thanks for the cheque and nice letter[3] - It was charming of you to send me the round hundred - When you come back we must settle that -
I will send the package to the Quai Malaquai tomorrow morning -
The Sarasate[4] I am afraid could not be got at in this haste just yet -
Write & let me know when you think of [p. 2] turning up again - that I may have time for portrait[5] -
Now I ought though to tell you something that has occurred - I have an offer[6] to buy up my entire stock - i.e. proofs & lithographs -
I say this to you not in order to urge you to do any thing more - you have plenty of Whistlers already - but I feel that you would in some way like to hear of this before hand -
However I am to give an answer on Thursday morning this week - Of course I am as yet vague as to what I really have -
I send this off in haste so that you may have it on your arrival in London -
Always sincerely
J. McN. Whistler
Reed[7] has sent the three[8] pictures, "The Princess," "The furred Jacket," & the "Dame au Brodequin Jaune" (Lady A[9]) to Chicago long ago - We ought to have news of their safe arrival -
I have also heard from Glasgow that the Council have lent the "Carlyle[10]"!
From London they have lent the Valparaiso Nocturne[11] and the Sea piece "Trouville"[12] -
Mr Freer[13] ought to lend "The Balcony," won't [p. 3] you ask him? - and then there is Mr Untermeyer[14] in New York who will lend the "Falling Rocket" -
If you are writing to Mr Ives[15] couldn't you tell him those things -
[butterfly signature]
If you want
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
'Apr. 17. 1893'[16]
To.E. G. Kennedy. Esq.
25. Garrick Street
Covent Garden
London -
Angleterre
[stamp:] POSTE / REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / 25
[postmark:] PARIS-80 R. DU BAC / 5E 17 / AVRIL / 93
[postmark on verso:] LONDON. W.C. / 8 [...] / AP18 / 93 / C.X.
Notes:
1. [17 April 1893]
Dated from the postmark.
2. Edward Guthrie Kennedy
Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), dealer with H. Wunderlich and Co., New York [more].
3. letter
Not located.
4. Sarasate
Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate (YMSM 315).
5. portrait
Portrait of E. G. Kennedy (2) (YMSM 404).
6. offer
It is possible this was from David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
7. Reed
Alexander Reid (1854-1936), Glasgow dealer [more].
8. three
La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine (YMSM 50), Arrangement in Black and Brown: The Fur Jacket (YMSM 181) and Arrangement in Black: La Dame au brodequin jaune - Portrait of Lady Archibald Campbell (YMSM 242).
9. Lady A
Janey Sevilla Campbell (ca 1846 - d.1923), née Callander, Lady Archibald Campbell [more].
10. Carlyle
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137).
11. Valparaiso Nocturne
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay (YMSM 76).
12. Sea piece "Trouville"
Blue and Silver: Trouville (YMSM 66).
13. Mr Freer
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), industrialist, collector and founder of the Freer Gallery of Art [more].
14. Mr Untermeyer
Samuel Untermyer (1858-1940), lawyer, capitalist and philanthropist [more].
15. Mr Ives
Halsey Cooley Ives (1847-1911), painter [more].
16. 'Apr. 17. 1893'
Written in another hand.