Documents associated with: Ten O'Clock Lecture, publication
Record 3 of 71
System Number: 02030
Date: 2 April 1887
Author: James R. Osgood[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler H131
Document Type: ALS
OFFICE OF
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
(JAMES R. OSGOOD, AGENT,)
30, FLEET ST, LONDON. E. C.
April 2. 1887
Dear Mr Whistler
I really don't wish to bore you, but at the possible risk of doing so I remind you that I have no answer to my letter[2] of some three weeks' ago wherein I made a proposal for the American reprint of Ten O'Clock[3]
On Wednesday next I leave for New York, and I should be pleased to convey your reply, if you [p. 2] will tell me what it is.
Yours very truly
J. R. Osgood
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Notes:
1. James R. Osgood
James Ripley Osgood (1836-1892), agent for Harper and Bros, publishers [more].
2. my letter
Osgood's letter to JW, 3 March 1887 (#02029).
3. American reprint of Ten O'Clock
The lecture was printed privately in 1885 and by Messrs. Chatto & Windus in 1886; the regular edition printed by Chatto is Whistler, James McNeill, Mr. Whistler's 'Ten O'clock', London, 1888. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. printed the first American edition in 1888. (See Getscher, Robert H., and Paul G. Marks, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Two Annotated Bibliographies, New York and London, 1986, A. 8-10.)