Documents associated with: 1st Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1877
Record 5 of 119
System Number: 08061
Date: [May/June 1877][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Frances Leyland[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 2/16/9
Document Type: ALS
Dear Mrs. Leyland
I wish I could have known sooner when you were to return - also why not have telegraphed when you were to arrive so that you might have been met at the Station! What a pity that you should not have allowed me to save you any trouble that I at all could -
I shall call tomorrow at one o'clock - and hope to find you and Miss Caird[3] in good health [p. 2] and spirits - I wish enough you had gone to the Grosvenor[4] - or anywhere else that was not too gloomy for you -
Of course I am in endless complications and have a diplomatic dinner to come off here on Wednesday - What am I to do - Burne Jones[5] and that man George Howard[6] among them - the rest dont [sic] matter -
Things are very dreary here otherwise -
Do stay over this week and go down on Monday if necessary -
With Very kindest regards
J A McN.Whistler -
I have not had a word from Freddie or the girls[7] since
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Notes:
1. [May/June 1877]
Dated from reference to the first Grosvenor Gallery exhibition. By July 1877, JW had quarreled with Leyland who had forbidden JW to see his wife and family.
2. Frances Leyland
Frances Leyland (1836-1910), née Dawson [more].
3. Miss Caird
Ellen Caird, friend of Mrs F. Leyland, possibly a sister of Sir James Caird.
4. Grosvenor
1st Summer Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1877, which opened to the public at the beginning of May 1877.
5. Burne Jones
Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898), painter and designer [more].
6. George Howard
George James Howard (1845-1911), 9th Earl of Carlisle, Liberal MP, and amateur artist [more].
7. Freddie or the girls
The Leyland children: Frederick Dawson Leyland (b. 1856), son of F. R. Leyland [more], Fanny Leyland (1857-1880), later Mrs Stevenson-Hamilton [more], Florence Leyland (1859-1921), later Mrs Prinsep [more] and Elinor Leyland (1861-1952), later Mrs Speed [more].