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Record 6 of 18
System Number: 02185
Date: 6 November 1878
Author: Charles Augustus Howell[1]
Place: London
Recipient: Algernon Graves[2]
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler H281a
Document Type: MsLc[3]
MEMORANDUM
FROM
HENRY GRAVES & COMPANY,
PRINTSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,
6, PALL MALL, LONDON, S. W.
LONDON, 188
TO
Copy
charldon House Fulham
6 Nov. 1878
Dear Graves
Please hold my portrait of Miss Corder[4] by J A McNeill Whistler in lieu of the two nocturnes[5] by the same artist - received by me
(signed) Charles A Howell
Algernon Graves Eq.
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Notes:
1. Charles Augustus Howell
Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more].
2. Algernon Graves
Algernon Graves (1845-1922), of H. Graves and Co., print dealers [more].
3. MsLc
This copy was made on the printed notepaper of H. Graves and Co., and is not in Howell's hand. On the reverse of this sheet is #02184.
4. portrait of Miss Corder
Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder (YMSM 203).
5. nocturnes
On the previous day, JW had asked Graves to deliver Nocturne in Grey and Gold (YMSM 155) to L. Ionides (#10913). It is not clear if Howell had just sold it to Ionides. There were, apparently, at least two Nocturnes of Battersea that were oscillating between Howell, JW and Graves.