Documents associated with: Payne, Georgiana Horne
Record 2 of 3
System Number: 04543
Date: [3 April 1878][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Georgiana Horne Payne[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P183
Document Type: ALdS
Dear Mrs. Payne -
I enclose the letter[3] that has brought about this mischief -
Though I thought that by this time I was tolerably familiar with the customs of the country in which it is my privilege to live, I had yet to learn it seems, that any one in the disguise of a gentleman (of course a lady is out of the question) could permit himself on any on a special day[4] of the year to drag into a vulgar [p. 2] joke the name of a lady it was his take an unwarrantable liberty with the name of a lady for the purpose of perpetrating a dreary though [illegible word] National joke -
With us the calendar offers no such facilities license - and I am afraid we should confound the amusing man with a blackguard -
I need not say how pained I am that I should have been however unconsciously, a means of annoyance to you -
Very sincerely Yours.
J——
'Undated[5]
Correspondence between Mrs Horne Payne & J. M. W. re. practical joke concerning etchings.'
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Envelope:
'Mrs Horne Payne[6]'
Notes:
1. [3 April 1878]
The final version of this letter has been dated '[3 April 1878]' (#07714).
2. Georgiana Horne Payne
Georgiana Horne Payne (b. 1837 or 1838), widow of G. S. Atwood, later wife of J. H. Payne [more]. This is a reply to Mrs Payne's letter to JW, returning some etchings she had not ordered (#04542).
3. letter
Not located.
4. special day
1 April is April Fool's Day.
5. Undated ... etchings.
Written in another (unknown) hand on small scrap of paper (possibly of a much later date).
6. Mrs Horne Payne
Written by Mary Maud Franklin (1857- ca 1941), JW's model and mistress [more].