Documents associated with: Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887
Record 9 of 9
System Number: 10872
Date: [10/24 December 1887?][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Mortimer Luddington Menpes[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 14/1209/1
Document Type: TLc
To Menpes.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF [LION[3]] BRITISH ARTISTES [sic],
Suffolk Street Pall Mall,
London, -
Dec. 1887.
I write on the official sheet O' dear most respectful' one because I am in love with the look of it! -
Isn't it really brilliant and fascinating as a picture! and my little red Lion - isn't he splendid, and well placed? -
What's the use? -
All right about the Manchester letter[4], I will write - Of course I can't go - All right about everything -
I am coming down to see you soon! -
[butterfly signature]
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Notes:
1. [10/24 December 1887?]
Dated by headed notepaper, first used about this date (see for example, JW to H. H. Cauty, 12 December 1887, #05315 and #13107).
2. Mortimer Luddington Menpes
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), artist [more].
3. Lion
The typescript copy here presumably indicates the new rectangular logo of the Royal Society of British Artists, designed by JW, incorporating a crowned lion and initials 'RBA'.
4. Manchester letter
This may have related to the Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887.