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Documents associated with: [Exhibition of the work of J. McN. Whistler], College for Working Men and Women, London, 1889
Record 4 of 7

System Number: 04066
Date: 27 April [1889][1]
Author: Henry Bruce Meux[2]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler M337
Document Type: ALS


41 Park Lane
W

April 27.

Dear Sir,

Will you kindly send the picture of Lady Meux in a sable dress[3] to
Miss Goold[4]
College for Men & Women
29 Queen Square
W. C.
where there is an exhibition of your pictures[5] which opens [p. 2] on May 1.

If it is not yet quite finished will you ask Lady Meux to give you another sitting or send you the sables -

Yours truly

H B Meux

[p. 3, red ink marks on page, apparently mere blottings]


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Notes:

1.  27 April [1889]
Dated by reference to exhibition (see below).

2.  Henry Bruce Meux
Sir Henry Bruce Meux (1857-1900), 3rd Baronet, brewer and patron [more].

3.  picture of Lady Meux in a sable dress
Portrait of Lady Meux in Furs (YMSM 230).

4.  Miss Goold
Miss Goold, unidentified. She was aparently involved in receiving works for [Exhibition of the work of J. McN. Whistler], College for Working Men and Women, London, 1889. The exhibition was organised by Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), artist and writer on art [more].

5.  exhibition of your pictures
[Exhibition of the work of J. McN. Whistler], College for Working Men and Women, London, 1889.