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Record 18 of 31
System Number: 08522
Date: [September 1899][1]
Author: JW
Place: Pourville-sur-Mer
Recipient: William Heinemann[2]
Place: [London?]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC
Document Type: ALS[3]
Pavillon Madeleine -
Pourville-sur-Mer.
pres Dieppe -
My dear Heinemann -
There came to me the other day that same abomination "The Bookman[4]" - sent with evident pleasure and much care, by Russell[5] himself!! -
Now what do you think of that? -
Of course he is [p. 2] convinced that it is all right - and that I shall like it - and is clearly proud of being in this way in it - and more or less the one who encourages these very good things!! -
What can one do! - You had better tell him -
There is one thing, by the way, that will interest you in this Bookman - and you naturally missed it, as you tossed away the whole affair -
A most naif and beaming notice of the poems of Lord Alfred Douglas[6]! - published by "Grant Richards[7] of London"! -
Did you know this? -
I am well - but still I fancy I have not quite forgotten my cold! -
What news have you? -
I think you might write now and then - just as who should say to show that you still have me on your conscience!!
This silence smacks too much of impossible innocence & affected indifference!
Who have you seen? - I dont know how long I shall [p. 3] stay on -
Have you made Pawling[8] send that little bit to Master Street[9]? -
Present my respectful homages to Madame Magda[10] - and ask her if she is not entirely of my opinion as herein set forth?
[butterfly signature]
'Sep. 99.[11]'
How go[12] on the Monotype shares? -
Miss Philip[13] has a hundred pounds to put in something - What do you think?
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Notes:
1. [September 1899]
Dated in another hand on p. 3.
2. William Heinemann
William Heinemann (1863-1920), publisher [more].
3. ALS
Mourning border.
4. The Bookman
A review of Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris and New York, 1899 [GM, A.24] in The Bookman, New York, August 1899, which contained a portrait of JW by Ernest Haskell (1876-1925), printmaker and painter of landscapes and portraits [more]; see JW's letter to Heinemann, #10814. Haskell's head and shoulders portrait of JW was recognisable, a gentle caricature probably intended to be complimentary.
5. Russell
Robert Howard Russell, writer, journalist and publisher [more].
6. Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945), poet [more].
7. Grant Richards
Grant Richards (1872-1948), publisher [more].
8. Pawling
Sidney Southgate Pawling (d. 1922), business partner of the publisher W. H. Heinemann [more].
9. Master Street
George Slythe Street (1867-1936), author [more].
10. Madame Magda
Magda Stuart Heinemann (m. 1899), née Sindici, pseudonym 'Kassandra Vivaria', writer [more].
11. Sep. 99.
Added in another hand.
12. How go ... think?
The rest of the text is added in the left margin of p. 1.
13. Miss Philip
Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more].