UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

System Number: 12720
Date: [17/20 April 1902]^[1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Société Nationale des Beaux Arts^[2]
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler NB 2/120-121e
Document Type: ALd

Mons—

J[e] regrette infinement que le Comittée de [illegible] n'ai pas trouvé convenient de me

Je viens d'apprendre a

Je vous prie de presenter mes compliments aux au President - au Comittée de

Je viens d'apprendre que

placement et de

consulter lors de la dis

M - Je regrette infinement que le Comittée ne m'a pas fait l'honneur de me consulter sur le placement de

[p. 2, sketch of paintings on gallery wall^[3]]

R. P. Apprendre Etonné apprendre position [affinité?] du

Imperatif changer immediate ^Prière mettre portrait oval de dame à la place de marine - et [illegible] marine ^{la haut}
Prière
Imperatif - changer de place le portrait oval et la marine -

'arrangement for Paris Salon 1902^[4].'

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Notes:

1.  [17/20 April 1902]
Dated from the note by Rosalind Birnie Philip (see below) and by the reference to an exhibition, which opened on 21 April 1902 (see JW to R. A. Canfield, 19 April 1902, #09044).

2.  Société Nationale des Beaux Arts
The letter was presumably intended for the Secretary of the Society.

3.  paintings on gallery wall
Panel of five paintings (M.1706). Five paintings, Violet and Silver: The Great Sea (YMSM 298), Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt (YMSM 515), Purple and Gold: Phryne the Superb! - Builder of Temples (YMSM 490), Grenat et or: Le Petit Cardinal (YMSM 469) and Gold and Orange: The Neighbours (YMSM 423), were on view in the 12th Exhibition, Ouvrages de Peintures, Sculpture, Dessin, Gravure, Architecture et Objets d'Art, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1902.

4.  arrangement for Paris Salon 1902
Written in the hand of Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more], at right angles to the main text.