Selected Letters
This sample shows how letters appear in the full edition. To view a letter, click on the record number at the start of each entry. Click on a note number to see the note, and on the note heading to return to the letter text. A list of abbreviations used in the heading and in the notes, such as 'ALS' ('Autograph Letter Signed'), is given in the general introduction.
06451 | 1 February 1855, Anna Matilda Whistler to JW |
10693 | 16 March [1863], JW to George Aloysius Lucas |
06521 | 4 August 1863, Anna Matilda Whistler to Deborah Delano Haden |
11983 | 30 September – 22 November 1868, JW to Henri Fantin-Latour |
08792 | [May/June 1869], JW to Frederick Richards Leyland |
02242 | [31 January 1873], JW to Louis Huth |
02783 | 9 October [1877], JW to Charles Augustus Howell |
04030 | [6/13 June 1878], JW to Editor, Mayfair |
12813 | [3/10 July 1878], JW to Matthew Robinson Elden |
02860 | [26 January 1880], JW to Charles Augustus Howell |
01954 | 2 May 1880, JW to Charles James Whistler Hanson (an image of this letter is also available) |
03331 | [28 August 1886], JW to Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell |
06001 | 14 March 1887, JW to Emilia A. Venturi |
05608 | [14/18 September 1887], JW to Thomas Waldo Story |
10544 | [7/14 November 1888], JW to Louise Jopling |
02416 | [1889/1890], JW to Louise Jopling |
06577 | [20/30 January 1889], Beatrix Whistler and JW to George Percy Jacomb Hood |
05381 | [February/March 1889], JW to John Singer Sargent |
06583 | 29 September 1889, Beatrix Whistler to Hermann Wunderlich |
06592 | [13 June 1891], JW to Beatrix Whistler |
06608 | 30 January 1892, JW to Beatrix Whistler |
06825 | [30 January/February 1899], JW to Académie Carmen |
03196 | [29 July 1899], JW to Charles Lang Freer |
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