Documents associated with: 2nd [Exhibition], Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1892
Record 10 of 41
System Number: 13629
Date: [12 April 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac[2]
Place: Paris
Repository: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Call Number: Nouv. Acq. Fr. 15335, f. 38
Document Type: ALS[3]
MR. J. McNEILL WHISTLER.
21, CHEYNE WALK
CHELSEA
Des complications et choses impossibles me retiennent ici avec le Jury[4] – Je viendrai dans l'espoir de vous trouver entre 3 et 4 – Mais ne changez pas votre programme pour l'après-midi – je vous prie surtout de pardonner –
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Translation:
Complications and impossible things retain me here with the Jury –
I will come in hope of finding you between 3 and 4 – But do not change your programme for the afternoon – most of all I ask your forgiveness –
Notes:
1. [12 April 1892]
Dated by Newton (see below).
2. Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921), Symbolist writer and poet, and collector [more].
3. ALS
Written in pencil on a visiting card with JW's London address, although he was in Paris. Published in Newton, Joy, La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon. Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler, Glasgow, 1990, no. 92, pp. 178-79.
4. Jury
JW was on the Jury of the 2nd Exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1892. He had suggested meeting Montesquiou in his letter of 10 April 1892, #03275.