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The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

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Documents associated with: Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883
Record 11 of 54

System Number: 10022
Date: [January 1883?][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Mortimer Luddington Menpes[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Document Type: ALS


Do send by bearer the list[3] that Browne[4] give [sic] me of what was wanted, and which list we put up on your mantelshelf in the printing room to refer to - Also a line to say if you have kept my specially reserved proofs of these plates in the press - and which ones they are.


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Notes:

1.  [January 1883?]
Dated from Mr Whistler's Etchings, The Fine Art Society, London, 1883.

2.  Mortimer Luddington Menpes
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), artist [more].

3.  List
Unidentified. This probably relates to the printing of Mr Whistler's Etchings of Venice, 1880 (the first 'Venice Set') (K. 183-189, 191-195). (excat 5).

4.  Browne
A mis-spelling of Ernest George Brown (1853 or 1854-1915), assistant manager at the Fine Art Society [more].