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The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

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Documents associated with: Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900
Record 17 of 41

System Number: 07771
Date: [9 June 1900][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Elizabeth Robins Pennell[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 273/14/2
Document Type: W


[telegraph form:]

POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.

[postmark:] WEST STRAND. B. O. / W. C. / * / JU 9 / 00

HANDED IN AT } Tottenham Crt Rd AT 2 35. p.M., RECEIVED HERE AT } 2 54 .M.

TO { Pennell 14 Buckingham St Strand

Let us put off till he[3] returns[.] congratulations[4] must be drunk together

Whistler


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Notes:

1.  [9 June 1900]
Dated from the postmark.

2.  Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936), née Robins, JW's biographer [more].

3.  he
Joseph Pennell (1860-1926), printer and illustrator, JW's biographer [more].

4.  congratulations
JW was awarded gold medals both for his paintings and etchings at Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1900. He had invited himself to dinner to celebrate (see #07711).