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Documents associated with: 1st Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, Venice, 1895
Record 5 of 12

System Number: 05933
Date: [9 September 1895[1]]
Author: Antonio Fradeletto[2]
Place: Venice
Recipient: JW
Place: Paris
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler V22
Document Type: W


[telegraph form:]

PARIS VENEZIA 501 22 9 9/30 6R.

HEUREUX VOUS COMMUNIQUER QUE THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL[3] A REMPORTE PRIX 2500 LIRE.

FRADELETTO SECRETAIRE

[p. 2] JAMES WHISTLER RUE DU BAC 110 PARIS.

'Cal'


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Translation:

Happy to report to you that the Little White Girl has won the 2500 lire prize.

Fradeletto, Secretary


Notes:

1.  9 September 1895
Dated from telegraph strip.

2.  Antonio Fradeletto
Antonio Fradeletto (1858-1930), literary historian, art critic and writer, radical politician, and general secretary of the Venice Biennale [more].

3.  LITTLE WHITE GIRL
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl (YMSM 52), on exhibition at the 1st Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, Venice, 1895.