Documents associated with: Académie Carmen, JW's visits
Record 7 of 8
System Number: 10741
Date: [2 October 1900][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Carmen Rossi[2]
Place: Paris
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 2/49/14
Document Type: AWS
[telegraph form:]
[postmark:] [...] GRAND [...] / 2 / OCT / 00
[printed stamp:] REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE / 50 / TELEGRAPHE
Madame Carmen143. 134. Boulevard Montparnasse
PARIS
[p. 2] Carmen -
Annoncez ma visite à l'Academie[3] pour demain matin - vers 11. heures -
Et surtout venez à mon atelier à 10. hrs -
J'aura [sic] grand plaisir à vous revoir toujours belle et j'espère bien en parfaite santé!
J McNeill Whistler
Hotel Chatham -
Vous ferez mes compliments à Madame Addams[4]
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Translation:
Carmen -
Give notice of my visit to the Academie for tomorrow morning at about 11 o'clock -
And above all come to my studio at 10 o'clock -
I shall be very pleased to see you again beautiful as ever and I sincerely hope in perfect health!
J McNeill Whistler
Hotel Chatham -
Convey my compliments to Madame Addams
Notes:
1. [2 October 1900]
Dated from postmark.
2. Carmen Rossi
Carmen Rossi, model, proprietess of the Académie Carmen [more].
3. l'Academie
The Académie Carmen, established by Carmen Rossi in 1898, and visited at intervals by JW until 1901, when it was closed.
4. Madame Addams
Inez Eleanor Addams (fl. 1898-1927), née Bate, painter [more]. She was made massière of the Académie.