Documents associated with: 102nd exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1884
Record 3 of 14
System Number: 01810
Date: 7 March 1884
Author: Algernon Graves[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler G176
Document Type: ALS
MEMORANDUM
FROM
HENRY GRAVES & COMPANY,
PRINTSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,
6, PALL MALL, LONDON, S. W.
LONDON, March 7th 1884
TO J McN Whistler Esq.
Dear Sir
My father[2] has acquiesced to your request as to the Carlyle[3] being lent by him to the Paris Salon but he wishes me to say that you have taken no notice whatever of a request[4] he made a few days back and trusts you will let him [p. 2] hear from you very soon
Yours faithfully
A. Graves.
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Notes:
1. Algernon Graves
Algernon Graves (1845-1922), of H. Graves and Co., print dealers [more].
2. My father
Henry Graves (1806-1892), print dealer and founder of H. Graves and Co. [more].
3. the Carlyle
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137) was sent to 102nd exhibition, Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1884 (cat. no. 2455).
4. request
This has not been traced but is likely to have been a request for payment on account for loans made by Graves on security of the portrait of Carlyle and other works.