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System Number: 13465
Date: [16 December 1891][1]
Author: Stéphane Mallarmé[2]
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: JW
Place: London
Repository: Private Collection
Document Type: PLc[3]


Mercredi matin.

Cher ami

Lettre au premier instant. J'attends un mot de R[ou] jon[4] disant tableau[5] placé.

1000 amitiés

SM

No O.W.[6]


This document is protected by copyright.


Translation:


Envelope:

Monsieur James M.N. Whistler
21 Cheyne Walk Chelsea
London S.W Angleterre
[postmark:] PARIS / 16 DEC 91 / PL DES ABBESSES


Notes:

1.  [16 December 1891]
Dated from postmark.

2.  Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), Symbolist writer and poet [more]. He signs this letter with his 'SM' monogram.

3.  PLc
Published by Barbier, Carl P., ed., Correspondance Mallarmé-Whistler: Histoire de la grande amitié de leurs dernières années, Paris, 1964 [GM, A.28], no. 81, p. 136.

4.  R[ou]jon
Henri Roujon (1853-1914), alias 'Henry Laujol', writer and administrator [more].

5.  tableau
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101).

6.  O.W.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde (1854-1900), writer, critic and playwright [more].