Documents associated with: 5th Exhibition, Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1895
Record 6 of 13
System Number: 08377
Date: 14 October 1895
Author: JW
Place: Lyme Regis
Recipient: David Croal Thomson[1]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 18/1598
Document Type: ALS[2]
The Royal Hotel - Lyme Regis.
- Dorset.
Oct 14. 1895
Dear Mr. Thomson -
I have received your very interesting letter and the cheque £210 - for the Devonshire Cottages[3] - Blue & Silver -
I must be right about Bailie Cochrane[4]! He was my great Champion on the Council in the matter of the Carlyle[5] - Surely it couldn't have been another name?
[p. 2] Richards[6] - Wait a bit - I will send you word when to call - I want you to see the little panel[7] when it is varnished and properly in its frame -
I may let you have it for [a] small price - say 80. gns -
However we will see -
This must go now -
The little head[8] in The Gallery is a beauty! - I shall want a pretty cheque for that let me tell you - and "no Britisher need apply"! -
Go - and tell me how you like it -
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
ToD. C. Thomson Esq
The Goupil Galleries
5. Regent Street
London[9]
[stamp:] POSTAGE AND INLAND REVENUE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LYME·REGIS / B / OC13 / 95
[postmark on verso:] LONDON. S.W. / OC 14 / 95
Notes:
1. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
2. ALS
'54C' is written in another hand in red ink at top left; '153' in pencil at bottom right of p. 1, and also on the envelope.
3. Devonshire Cottages
Green and Silver: The Devonshire Cottages (YMSM 266).
4. Bailie Cochrane
He meant Robert Crawford (1845-1915), of Burns, Crawford and Co. [more]; see JW's earlier letter to D. C. Thomson, [11 October 1895], #08378.
5. Carlyle
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137).
6. Richards
Stephen Richards (b. ca 1845), picture restorer [more].
7. panel
Not identified.
8. head
Crimson note: Carmen (YMSM 441), on show at the 5th Exhibition, Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1895.
9. London
Double underlined.