Documents associated with: [Exposition], Société des XX (Vingt), Brussels, 1884
Record 8 of 13
System Number: 07912
Date: [21 January 1884][1]
Author: JW
Place: St Ives
Recipient: Charles William Deschamps[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/23/8
Document Type: ALS
'21/1/84[3]'
My dear Deschamp [sic] -
Do send me a line to tell me that the things got off all right for Bruxelles[4] - also any news you have of their safe arrival -
What about Galleries? Galerries? Galerries and Games? -
Also tell me of the Election at the Hogarth Club[5] - I want to know if it all went well with my Candidate Menpes[6]? -
I have a letter from the Insurance [people?] [p. 2] Shall I send them the cheqke cheque at once - or wait until I hear from you whether the Societé des XX mean to pay? -
I am getting tired of this place as you may well imagine -
Yours Always -
J McNeill Whistler
14. Barnoon Terrace -
St Ives Cornwall -
Has it been made all right about the Catalogue[7]?
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Notes:
1. [21 January 1884]
The date is noted in another hand.
2. Charles W. Deschamps
Charles William Deschamps (1848-1908), art dealer [more].
3. 21/1/84
Written in another hand.
4. Bruxelles
JW's letter to Deschamps on 29 January 1884 (#07913) discusses the paintings to be sent to [Exposition], Société des XX (Vingts), Brussels, 1884.
5. Hogarth Club
Club for artists and connoisseurs.
6. Menpes
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), artist [more]. He was not elected at this date; see also JW's letter to him later in the spring conveying the news of a further failed election attempt (#10001). However Menpes was eventually elected to the Hogarth (see #10031).
7. Catalogue
JW sent a sketch of Paintings for exhibition (M.910) which was reproduced in the catalogue for the first exhibition of Les XX. He had also written to Deschamps on 17 January (#07911) requesting that the titles to his paintings be recorded precisely in the catalogue.