Documents associated with: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886
Record 4 of 54
System Number: 10019
Date: [1/14 May 1884 or May 1886][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Mortimer Luddington Menpes[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Document Type: ALS
HOGARTH CLUB,
27, ALBEMARLE STREET,
W.
You know that in every case you must come down to the Studio tomorrow - for thirty frames have been delivered - I have Dowdeswell[3] has just told me -
Shall expect you -
Perhaps you might take me at the house by 9.[4] o'clock on your way -
[butterfly signature]
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Notes:
1. [1/14 May 1884 or May 1886]
Dated by reference to exhibition (see below).
2. Mortimer Luddington Menpes
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), artist [more]. Menpes was JW's pupil and assistant. He describes preparations for JW's exhibitions in Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904.
3. Dowdeswell
The frames were for either 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884, or the second show of that name in 1886. They were in three shades of gold to complement the pictures.
4. 9
Underlined three times.