Documents associated with: Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901
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System Number: 04421
Date: 21 January 1901
Author: John B. Cauldwell[1]
Place: New York
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P61
Document Type: ALS
UNITED STATES COMMISSION
TO THE
PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900.
CHICAGO / AUDITORIUM BUILDING
NEW YORK / EQUITABLE BUILDING
PARIS / 20 AVENUE RAPP
NEW YORK OFFICES,
Jan 21st 1901.
My dear Mr Whistler
Permit me to send you this line as a means of introducing my esteemed friend Mr Wm A. Coffin[2] of New York, a well known landscapist and one of our foremost champions in the efforts that have been made to remove the duty on foreign works of art. He is now Director of the Pan American at Buffalo[3] & goes to Paris to secure the co-operation of our (p. 2)[4] distinguished men living abroad. He has no affiliations with the Club or its methods and I am sure you will find him a man Entirely in sympathy with your views. Trusting you will grant him an opportunity of explaining the objects of his Mission and with all good wishes, to you, my dear Mr Whistler, for the New Year,
believe me
Most Sincerely Yours
John B Cauldwell
J. McNeill Whistler Eqr
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Notes:
1. John B. Cauldwell
John Britton Cauldwell (1855-1932), Director-in-chief of the U. S. Department of Fine Arts at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900 [more].
2. Mr Wm A. Coffin
William Anderson Coffin (1855-1925), landscape and figure painter [more].
3. Buffalo
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901.
4. (p. 2)
Printed letterhead is repeated at the top of this sheet, as on page one.