Documents associated with: Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889
Record 19 of 62
System Number: 00553
Date: 22 March 1889
Author: John Cavafy[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler C54
Document Type: ALS
2, UPPER BERKELEY STREET,
PORTMAN SQUARE, W.
March 22. 1889
Dear Whistler
You must please excuse us[2] from lending you any more of our pictures - As I wrote to you we already find the it far from agreeable to be without the 'Balcony'[3] -
Yours very truly
John Cavafy -
[p. 2] 'Cavafy[4] -'
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Notes:
1. John Cavafy
Dr John Cavafy (ca 1839-1901), physician and collector, son of G. J. Cavafy [more]. He had written to JW on 14 March 1889 (#00551).
2. us
Referring to his father, George John Cavafy (1805-1891), merchant, partner in G. J. Cavafy and Company [more].
3. 'Balcony'
Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony (YMSM 56) was on view at Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889.
4. Cavafy
Written in another hand.