Documents associated with: Jay, Mrs Louis
Record 5 of 6
System Number: 10682
Date: [March 1898][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Mrs Jay[2]
Place: [Paris?]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 2 /11/4
Document Type: MsLc[3]
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110 rue du Bac
It is most kind and nice of you, dear Mrs Jay to ask me - but I am, I fear, poor company for a party - So this time you will forgive my not being able to take my place among your guests -
You were both always charming and kind friends - and I should like to see you much - Will you let me come and dine with you some evening, simply by yourselves? Nothing would give me greater pleasure -
With kindest regards to yourself and your husband, and many regrets
Always, dear Mrs Jay
Very sincerely Yours
J. McNeill Whistler
(March 1898 - Mr Whistler was still in deep mourning for his wife[4])
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Notes:
1. [March 1898]
Date noted by the copyist at the foot of the page.
2. Mrs Jay
Mrs Louis Jay, a social acquaintance of JW [more].
3. MsLc
The copy is in an unknown hand.
4. wife
This sentence is a note by the copyist, referring to Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].