Documents associated with: health (JW)
Record 145 of 172
System Number: 04829
Date: [7 November 1901][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Rosalind Birnie Philip[2]
Place: Paris
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P469
Document Type: ALS
Tallant's -[3]
Thursday night
This[4], Major, you can have in your packet to fire off, in case tomorrow's replies & general developement [sic] make it the right thing -
I am to see Webb[5] - he is coming here where I am staying with the fog - in the throat - but not very bad -
I need not say how furious with the Kelly[6] fellow, d—d type! -
Shall wire when to use - & you [p. 2] of course deliver yourself into the hand of Boddington [sic][7] -.
With love to both[8]
the General
Webb has been here today too - and was dispatched -
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
'NOV 7th 1901'[9]
áMademoiselle Birnie-Philip
110. Rue du Bac
Paris
France.
[stamp x 6:] POSTAGE AND INLAND REVENUE / ONE PENNY
[stamp:] POSTAGE & REVENUE / ONE HALFPENNY
[postmark:] CONTINENTAL [NIGHT MAIL?] / O. X. / * / NO 7 / 01
[postmark on verso:] 9 PARIS 9 / DISTRIBUTION / 7 * / 8 - 11 / 01
Notes:
1. [7 November 1901]
Dated from the postmark, and from the day of the week.
2. Rosalind Birnie Philip
Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more]. She had complained to JW of Kelly's conduct, #04828. She replied to JW on 7 November 1901, #04830. She called JW the 'General'; she was the 'Major'.
3. Tallant's -
JW was staying in Tallant's Hotel, 20, North Audley Street, London (see also #06747).
4. This
JW's letter to Kelly, 6 November 1901, #00316.
5. Webb
William Webb (b. ca 1851), of G. and W. Webb, lawyer [more].
6. Kelly
Kelly, lawyer, partner in Boddington and Kelly; see his letters to R. Birnie Philip, #06265, #06266.
7. Boddington [sic]
Oliver Eaton Bodington (1859-after 1936), barrister and author [more].
8. both
Ethel Whibley (1861-1920), née Philip, JW's sister-in-law [more]; she was apparently with her sister.
9. 'NOV 7th 1901'
Written on the envelope in another hand.