Documents associated with: Howell, Charles Augustus
Record 13 of 192
System Number: 10584
Date: [1868/1869][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Charles Augustus Howell[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Document Type: ALS
[oval scroll:] 12, SALISBURY STREET STRAND W. C.
[scroll, central panel:] ARUNDEL CLUB[3]
62. Great Russell St.[4]
Bloomsbury
Friday.
Dear Howell -
All right about the plates[5] - I shall have them here tomorrow - and if you can, come at about 5 4 P. M.
Ever Yours -
J A McN Whistler -
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Notes:
1. [1868/1869]
Dated from address (see below).
2. Charles Augustus Howell
Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more].
3. ARUNDEL CLUB
It is not know if JW was a member of this club. He might have been visiting James Anderson Rose (1819-1890), solicitor [more], whose office was next door at 11, Salisbury Street.
4. 62. Great Russell St
JW worked for about a year at this address, which was the studio of Arthur Murch (fl. 1850-1877, d. before 1891), artist [more].
5. plates
JW was probably working on the 'Thames Set', eventually published as A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames, 1871 (the 'Thames Set') (K.38-44, 46, 52, 66, 68, 71, 74-76, 95) (excat 4) by F. S. Ellis in 1871.