UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

System Number: 01291
Date: 7 May 1895
Author: Marcus Bourne Huish^[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler F223
Document Type: ALS

BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES
[royal coat of arms]
FIRST SPECIAL AWARD
SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 1879
MELBOURNE. 1880
DIPLOMA OF HONOUR VIENNA. 1883
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "FINART, LONDON."
PLEASE ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO THE SOCIETY.

THE FINE ART SOCIETY LIMD.
148, NEW BOND ST. W.

May 7th 1895

Dear Mr Whistler

Enclosed I am sending you check for £10. 10 6 which is the amount due to you for printing the etchings as per enclosed account. This has nothing to do with the £20 - which we sent you on account of the lithographs which we still hold & await exhibition of. If you can print us some more [p. 2] Doorways^[2] we should be much obliged. Kindly do so when you have leisure.

We still have in hopes of having an exhibition of your works. We are to open one in a fortnights time of Phil Mays^[3] drawings. I believe that you have expressed a good opinion of them. It would give his show a lift if you could let me have this in black & white that we might show to admirers of your work & who would be guided by it.

I do hope that you have better account to give of Mrs. Whistlers^[4] health!

Believe me to be
Failly yrs

Marcus B Huish

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Notes:

1.  Marcus Bourne Huish
Marcus Bourne Huish (1843 - d.1921), barrister, writer and art dealer, Director of the Fine Art Society [more].

2.  Doorways
The Doorway (K.188) (see M. B. Huish to JW, #01270).

3.  Phil Mays
Philip ('Phil') William May (1864-1903), cartoonist [more]. JW appears to have given Huish his recommendation (see draft statement, #01292). Mr Whistler's Lithographs, The Fine Art Society, London, 1895, finally opened in December 1895.

4.  Mrs. Whistlers
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more] was ill with cancer.