Documents associated with: 12th Exhibition, Society of French Artists, London, 1876
Record 2 of 2
System Number: 00577
Date: 17 July 1876
Author: Alfred Chapman[1]
Place: Liverpool
Recipient: JW
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler C78
Document Type: ALS
23, ABERCROMBY SQUARE,
LIVERPOOL.
17 July 1876
J. M. Whistler Esq -
2 Lyndsay [sic] Row
Chelsea
Dear Jim
Your telegram just to hand & remembering one of the few scraps of Latin I do remember Bis dat[2] &c I send you enclosed cheque for sixty guineas ie sixty three pounds for the "Blue Waves"[3] I saw at Deschamps[4] gallery[.] [p. 2] Will you let Jennings[5] have the picture on or before the 21st inst as he is returning one to me then from George[6] so they can both come down together.
I hope you will be able to come here this autumn
I am off to Kenilworth in a few minutes [till?] Thursday - my address there will be care of H B Preston[7] - Fern Bank
Believe me
yours [sincerely?]
Alfred Chapman
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Notes:
1. Alfred Chapman
Alfred Chapman (1839-1917), engineer and collector [more]
2. Bis dat
'Bis dat qui cito dat', Latin: 'He gives twice who gives quickly,' attributed to Publilius Syrus.
3. Blue Waves
Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Bognor (YMSM 100). Exhibited as cat. no. 149, Nocturne in Blue and Gold.
4. Deschamps
Charles William Deschamps (1848-1908), art dealer [more].
5. Jennings
Jennings, an unidentified friend of A. Chapman?
6. George
Possibly George R. Chapman (b. 1834), artist [more].
7. H B Preston
Henry B. Preston, resident at Fern Bank, Ladies' Hill, Kenilworth.