Document associated with: Society of French Artists, London, 1891
Record 1 of 1
System Number: 13628
Date: [6/14 April 1891?][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac[2]
Place: [London?]
Repository: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Call Number: Nouv. Acq. Fr. 15335, f. 36
Document Type: ALS[3]
MR. J. McNEILL WHISTLER
21 CHEYNE WALK,
CHELSEA,
Mais charmé! - Seulement je crains que la Private View[4] n'ait eu lieu aujourd'hui!
Toujours
[butterfly signature]
On peut toujours essayer.
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Translation:
But it would be my pleasure! - Only I am afraid the Private View took place today.
Yours ever
[butterfly signature]
We can still try.
Notes:
1. [6/14 April 1891?]
Dated by reference to private view (see below).
2. Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921), Symbolist writer and poet, and collector [more].
3. ALS
Written on a visiting card. Published in Newton, Joy, La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon. Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler, Glasgow, 1990, no. 46, pp. 95-96, dated 'April 1891?'.
4. Private View
Perhaps Society of French Artists, London, 1891, to which JW contributed in April 1891.