Documents associated with: health, cold
Record 17 of 31
System Number: 09796
Date: [3 August 1899][1]
Author: JW
Place: Dieppe
Recipient: Edward Guthrie Kennedy[2]
Place: London
Repository: New York Public Library
Call Number: E. G. Kennedy II/131
Credit Line: Edward Guthrie Kennedy Papers / Manuscripts and Archives Division / The New York Public Library / Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Document Type: ALSc[3]
* RESTAURANT A. LEFÈVRE.
1. RUE DE L'HÔTEL DE VILLE.
DIEPPE.
Wire Whistler.
1. Rue Hotel de Ville Dieppe.
O K! -
Here we are eating again! -
Well now why not come over and do your Bank holiday here? -
What you do is to wire me here* - and say when you are to arrive and I will secure room -
Nothing can be done in London - and I don't quite know about going over [p. 2] yet - This air is I suppose doing me great good - and I had better stay on a few days longer - for this British cold I picked up stuck by me most persistently - and I want to get rid of it -
What do you know about the Winans'[4] pictures? There was the Pool Rotherhithe[5] - that went to Tom Winans' daughter[6] - and then what about a painting called "Alone with the Tide[7]"- It used to be George Whistler's[8] -
A beautiful thing - painted in Brittany - Blue Sea - long wave breaking - black and brown rocks - great foreground of sand - and wonderful girl asleep -
You ought to have that for the Exhibition -
And now that I tell you about it you might in return so manage that I have it for Exhibition here - and for reviewing - cleaning and putting in order -
'Ross Winans[9]'
The American Papers are disgraceful - thats all -
I think you gave me beginning of list of the etchings you got this time - Will look in trunk -
We can see -
Always
[butterfly signature]
Pavillon Madeleine
Pourville-sur-Mer -
près Dieppe -
Thursday -
'(over)[10]'
[p. 3] 'He went to Heinemann's[11] place at Surbiton and Heinemann got induced him to take a hot bath. Then seated outside on the grass, he caught a violent cold, though the day was very warm for England. "Well," I said, "I dont know which is the most foolish, you for taking the bath or Heinemann for proposing it".
American papers pitched into his Baronet & Butterfly[12]'
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Envelope:
'Aug. 3 / 99'
ToO K. 'Kennedy Esq
Garlants Hotel
Suffolk Street
Pall Mall
Angleterre
[stamp:] [POSTE] / 25 / [REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE]
[postmark:] DIEPPE / SEINE INFRE / [...] 3 / [AU] / 99
Notes:
1. [3 August 1899]
Dated from the postmark and day of the week; 3 August fell on a Thursday in 1899.
2. Edward Guthrie Kennedy
Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), dealer with H. Wunderlich and Co., New York [more]. JW called him O'K.
3. ALSc
This is actually a photograph of the original letter. The address on the envelope was crossed out with a large 'X'.
4. Winans'
Thomas De Kay Winans (1820-1878), locomotive engineer and collector [more].
5. Pool Rotherhithe
Wapping (YMSM 35).
6. daughter
Celeste Winans (1823-1861), née Revillon, wife of Thomas De Kay Winans [more].
7. Alone with the Tide
The Coast of Brittany (YMSM 37).
8. George Whistler's
George Washington Whistler (1800-1849), engineer, JW's father [more].
9. Ross Winans
Ross Winans, Jr, brother of W. and T. De Kay Winans [more]. Added in the left margin in another hand.
10. (over) ... Butterfly
The rest is written in the hand of E. G. Kennedy.
11. Heinemann's
William Heinemann (1863-1920), publisher [more].
12. Baronet & Butterfly
Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris and New York, 1899 [GM, A.24].