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Documents associated with: Société Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1899
Record 5 of 5

System Number: 07965
Date: [17 December 1899][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: Francis Vielé-Griffin[2]
Place: Paris
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/39/24
Document Type: AWS


[telegraph form:]

I am so sorry about tonight! In my desire to pass the evening with you both, I forgot entirely that this is the night of the dinner given to [Bésin?] and myself by the Société Internationale[3]!

So that we must put off all we have to say - and there is so much to be said since the other day!

They have been going on "staggering humanity"!

With my kindest regards and sincere apologies

[butterfly signature]

Sunday morng. -

[p. 2] Monsieur Viélé-Griffin
46. Rue Hamelin -
Ave. Kléber
PARIS

[printed stamp:] REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE / 50 / TELEGRAPHE
[postmark:] [PARIS] / GRAND HOTEL / 17 DEC / 99


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Notes:

1.  [17 December 1899]
Dated from the postmark and the almanac: 17 December 1999 was a Sunday.

2.  Francis Vielé-Griffin
Francis Vielé-Griffin (1863/1864-1937), poet [more].

3.  Internationale
JW had exhibited triumphantly at the Société Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1899.