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Documents associated with: 21st Autumn Exhibition of Pictures, Corporation of Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1891
Record 2 of 21

System Number: 06007
Date: 21 July 1891
Author: Charles Dyall[1]
Place: Liverpool
Recipient: JW
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W4
Document Type: ALS


TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, -
"PICTURES, LIVERPOOL."
[Liverpool coat of arms]

CITY OF LIVERPOOL,
WALKER ART GALLERY,

July 21st 1891

Dear Sir

At a meeting of the Liverpool Arts Committee, held yesterday, the Chairman Mr. Philip H. Rathbone[2], announced your kind consent to take part in the arrangement of the ensuing Autumn Exhibition[3] and I was instructed to formally invite you to become a member of the Executive Committee appointed for that purpose.

I have therefore much pleasure in conveying to you their invitation

and remain Dear Sir
Yours very truly

Charles Dyall

Curator
Per SHF.

J. McNeil [sic] Whistler, Esq
21 Cheyne Walk
Chelsea

P. S. The work of selection will commence on Tuesday morning the 11th August at 10 o'clock


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Notes:

1.  Charles Dyall
Charles Dyall (b. ca 1831), Curator at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool [more].

2.  Mr. Philip H. Rathbone
Philip Henry Rathbone (1828-1895), collector [more].

3.  Autumn Exhibition
21st Autumn Exhibition of Pictures, Corporation of Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1891.