Documents associated with: 3rd [Exhibition], Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1893
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System Number: 09691
Date: [4 July 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Edward Guthrie Kennedy[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: New York Public Library
Call Number: E. G. Kennedy I/26
Credit Line: Edward Guthrie Kennedy Papers / Manuscripts and Archives Division / The New York Public Library / Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Document Type: ALS
RESTAURANT & HOTEL FOYOT[3]
RUE DE TOURNON, 33
PARIS,
LE 189
Dear Mr Kennedy -
All right about the Embroidered Curtain[4] - and many thanks for cheque -
Dont miss the Champs de Mars[5] - and don't forget to write me a line telling me what you think about it all -
Bon voyage & au revoir
With our kindest regards
Very Sincerely Yours
J. McN. Whistler
Monday morning.
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Notes:
1. 4 July 1892
Dated from the sequence of letters in Kennedy's letterbooks (although this is not completely reliable) and also by the almanac and the date of Kennedy's visit to Paris (he left Paris for London on 4 July 1892, which was a Monday).
2. Edward Guthrie Kennedy
Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), dealer with H. Wunderlich and Co., New York [more].
3. Restaurant ...Foyot
The letter is written in purple ink on squared paper, at right angles to the printed address.
4. Embroidered Curtain
The Embroidered Curtain (K.410).
5. Champs de Mars
2nd Exhibition, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1892.