Documents associated with: 5th Exhibition, Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1895
Record 8 of 13
System Number: 08381
Date: [17 October 1895][1]
Author: JW
Place: Lyme Regis
Recipient: David Croal Thomson[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 18/1599
Document Type: ALS[3]
The Royal Lion - Lyme Regis.
It is very nice & kind of you to take all this trouble about my Bailie[4]! [sic] but I fear I must have made some mistake - I will write to Paris & find if I have got hold of the wrong name - Meanwhile I will send you word in a day or two when you can see the little panel[5] in question - Do you really know any one who has made my frames? - Poor Grau[6] has not left his successor the plans has he? and Richards[7] says that his man could only make my frame if he had one to copy by him - I want 3. of exactly the same pattern and size, as the one I have in The New Gallery[8]. Have you seen that head[9] yet?
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
[postcard:] ToD. C. Thomson. Esq.
The Goupil Gallery -
5. Regent Street -
London -
[stamp:] HALF PENNY
[postmark:] LYME·REGIS / D / OC17 / 95
Notes:
1. 17 October 1895
Dated from the postmark.
2. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
3. ALS
'66C' is written in another hand in red ink at top left and '155' in pencil at bottom right of p. 1.
4. Bailie
Robert Crawford (1845-1915), of Burns, Crawford and Co. [more].
5. panel
Not identified; a seapiece.
6. Grau
Frederick H. Grau (d. 1894/1895), picture framer [more].
7. Richards
Stephen Richards (b. ca 1845), picture restorer [more].
8. Gallery
'Gallery ... yet?' is written in the left margin at right angles to the main text, and the signature is in the top left corner.
9. head
Crimson note: Carmen (YMSM 441), on show at 5th Exhibition, Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1895.