Documents associated with: [Exhibition], Société des XX (Vingt), Brussels, 1888
Record 13 of 18
System Number: 09239
Date: [10 February 1888][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Octave Maus[2]
Place: [Brussels]
Repository: Archives de l'Art Contemporain en Belgique, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles
Call Number: Fonds Vander Linden, archives Octave Maus, 5074
Document Type: W[3]
[telegraph form:] TÉLÉGRAMME.
BUREAU D'ARRIVÉE:
[postmark:] BRUXELLES (PALAIS DE JUSTICE) / 10 / FEVR / 88
DÉPOSÉ À AANGEBODEN TE London
LE DEN 10 / 2 À TEN 10.31 [a]m NO 1971
Lettre pas reçue repondez whistler, the vale chelsea
'[10. 2. 1888][4]'
REÇU À: / ONTRANGEN TEN: / 12H 06 [s?]
LE TÉLÉGRAPHISTE,
[illegible initials]
This document is protected by copyright.
Translation:
Not received letter answer whistler, the vale chelsea
Notes:
1. 10 February 1888
Dated by postmark.
2. Octave Maus
Octave Maus (1856-1919), advocate, writer and art critic [more]. This relates to the [Exhibition], Société des XX (Vingts), Brussels, 1888 to which JW sent eight works. These included Arrangement in Black and Brown: The Fur Jacket (YMSM 181), Nocturne: Black and Gold - The Fire Wheel (YMSM 169) and St.James's Place, Houndsditch (K.290). See Maus's reply later the same day, #05492. See also other correspondence dating from January and February 1888 - JW to O. Maus, #09237, #09242, #09243, #05493, and Maus to JW, #05489, #05490). It documents the delayed arrival of The Fire Wheel.
3. W
This letter must not be published in any form without the prior written consent of the owner.
4. '[10. 2. 1888]'
Date inserted in another hand.