System Number: 03331
Date: [28 August 1886][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell[2]
Place: London
Repository: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Call Number: FGA Whistler 6
Credit Line: Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of the Estate of Charles Lang Freer
Document Type: ALS
[embossed:] BEAUFORT[3] GRILL CLUB.
32. DOVER STREET. W.
How really sweet of you! -
I felt that you were loyal - and you have proved it -
Nothing is more charming to me than this true camarade faith in the work - there are things [p. 2] I would say to you - but you shall look for them in the white picture[4] -
[butterfly signature]
If she behaves well we might become powerful indeed -
Avec vous j'irais loin!![5] -
Meanwhile tomorrow at three - and you know I am devoted -
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
ToThe Lady Collin [sic] Campbell
2. Victoria Mansions
Westminster -
[stamp:] POSTAGE AND INLAND REVENUE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON-W / 87 / AU 28 / 86
Notes:
1. [28 August 1886]
Dated from the postmark.
2. Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell
Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell (1857-1911), née Blood, Lady Colin Campbell, writer, art critic and amateur artist [more].
3. BEAUFORT ... W.
Embossed address.
4. white picture
Harmony in White and Ivory: Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell (YMSM 354).
5. Avec vous j'irais loin!!
Fr., With you I would go far!!