Documents associated with: [Exhibition], Dresden, 1901
Record 7 of 7
System Number: 05522
Date: 15 January 1902
Author: Alan Summerly Cole[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler S167
Document Type: MsTsLS[2]
[royal coat of arms with motto:] DIEU ET MON DROIT
BOARD OF EDUCATION
SOUTH KENSINGTON,
LONDON, S. W.
F. E. / 36919 / 01.
15th January 1902.
Sir,
I am directed to inform you that the Board of Education have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs[3] medals awarded by the Prize Court of the Inter-National Exhibition of Art at Dresden[4] to British subjects who contributed to that Exhibition, and forwarded from the German Embassy for distribution.
I am accordingly to state that the Gold Medal awarded to you in respect of the work exhibited by you at Dresden has been sent to you to-day by registered post in a separate packet, and to ask you to have the goodness to let me know as soon as it reaches you.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Alan S Cole
James McNeill Whistler, Esq.,
8 Fitzroy Street,
Fitzroy Square,
W.
[illegible initials]
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Notes:
1. Alan Summerly Cole
Alan Summerly Cole (1846-1934), textile expert and museum official [more].
2. MsTsLS
The main text is typed, except for the initials near the top, date, signature, and closing address and initials. The sheet has a narrow mourning border.
3. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Not identified.
4. Exhibition of Art at Dresden
[Exhibition], Dresden, 1901.