Documents associated with: 6th Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882
Record 2 of 12
System Number: 06699
Date: [1881/1884][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Helen Euphrosyne Whistler[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W693
Document Type: TLc
I am awfully sorry my dear Nellie but I can't get down to Aleco's[3] tomorrow - I have an engagement that prevents
It is all very well about missing me - but I shall perhaps take you at your word and come again some day next week - Of course about the etching[4] - it is yours - and others too, if you only ask for them - it is quite your own fault if you have not a collection of them
I may have something to tell you about the Nocturne[5]! -
Now will you[6] do me a favour and tell Lizzie[7] to by [sic]
buy for me one bag of hominy and one of Indian meal - and make the people send them - 13, Tite Street Chelsea -
There is no use, things would be too uncertain[,] I shall have to get them myself -
Adieu -
Always affectly
Jim
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Notes:
1. [1881/1884]
Dated from address. JW lived at No. 13 Tite Street during this period.
2. Helen Euphrosyne Whistler
Helen ('Nellie') Euphrosyne Whistler (1849-1917), née Ellen Ionides, JW's sister-in-law [more].
3. Aleco's
Alexander ('Aleco') Ionides (1840-1898), businessman [more].
4. etching
Helen Whistler's will suggests that she later acquired other etchings by JW. This one may have been a Venice etching such as The Steamboat, Venice (K.228).
5. Nocturne
Perhaps Nocturne: Grey and Silver - Chelsea Embankment, Winter (YMSM 205) which was sold at Christie's, London, on 9 May 1881 to the collector James Guthrie Orchar (1825-1888), engineer and collector [more], or Nocturne in Black and Gold: Entrance to Southampton Water (YMSM 179), exhibited at 6th Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1882.
6. Now will you ... Chelsea -
This section has been transcribed from another hand-written copy, by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more], who recorded that it was crossed out in original. See #03306.
7. Lizzie
Lizzie (b. ca 1853), possibly a servant of H. and W. McN. Whistler.