urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00980 James McNeill Whistler: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp Harry Ransom Center, 2013 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp 20 November 2013 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 James McNeill Whistler Collection 1867-1903, undated 1 box (.21 linear feet) Contains works and letters by the American artist, James McNeill Whistler, some of which relate to other artists, such as Mortimer Menpes and Harper Pennington. Includes a proof photograph of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. English, French Manuscript Collection MS-04481 Access:

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 Container List Works: 1.1 Eden versus Whistler; the baronet and the butterfly; a valentine with a verdict, handwritten manuscript / draft fragments with revisions and butterfly signatures, 8 leaves, December 1897 (Paris). Included with this: ALS from Whistler to Sydney S. Pawling about this work, winter 1898. From Hanley II. Letters: 1.2 ANS to unidentified recipient Susie, undated. 1.2 2 AL, signed with the butterfly, to unidentified recipients, both undated. Included with this: typed transcription of one letter written in Paris to an editor. 1.2 2 AL / drafts / photocopies to unidentified recipients, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS / photocopy to Allingham, Theodore, 5 September 1878. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS / photocopy to Angus, William Craibe, 22 March 1882. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS to Angus, Craibe, 4 August 1882. From the Stark Collection. 1.2 ALS to Clark, undated. 1.2 ALS / photocopy to Grapel, undated. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS to Harris, Frank, undated. 1.2 AL / photocopy to Henley, William Ernest, undated. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS to Howell, Charles Augustus, 1 February no year. 1.3 6 ALS / photocopy, 3 AL / photocopy to Howell, Charles Augustus, 1868-1879, undated. Included with one AL: AN / cover letter Whistler to Rosa Corder. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS to Ionides, Lucas, 14 October 1868. Removed from ND 237 W6 A3 1890 copy 3. 1.2 3 AL / drafts / photocopies to Menpes, Mortimer, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.4 34 ANS to Menpes, Mortimer, undated; ANS to Carr re Mortimer Menpes, 25 December 1888. From Hanley II. 1.2 AL / draft / photocopy to Morley, 12 February 1889. In hand of Charles Hanson. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS to Moulton, Louise (Chandler), undated. 1.2 AL / draft / photocopy to the press, undated. In hand of Charles Hanson. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS / photocopy to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 20 April 1867. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 ALS / photocopy to Symons, W. Christian, undated. Included with this: AL / draft / photocopy in Whistler's hand as from Symons to probably Justin McCarthy. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.2 2 AL / photocopies to Wilde, Oscar, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. Letters I: ALS, TLS APCI, pencil drawing, proof for a photograph of Oscar Wilde by Sarony, reproduction of a portrait of Whistler, all bound together in leather binding, 1873-1903. Ex libris of Alfred Nathan: 1.5 Pennington, Harper. Portrait of a boy, pencil drawing, signed with 3 small pen and ink sketches drawn on the same sheet, 1 leaf, undated. Written at the bottom of the drawing is a quotation in Latin from Virgil's Aeneid written out by Oscar Wilde, with his signature, 23 April 1886 (Godalming). 1.5 Pennington, Harper. TLS to Wallace, Donald B., 13 July 1903. 1.5 Whistler, James McNeill. ALS to Hardy, 7 July 1873. Written in French. 1.5 Wilde, Oscar. APCI to Smithers, Leonard Charles, December 1898. Recipient: 1.6 Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903. 2 ALS / photocopy, 7 ALI / photocopy, telegram / photocopy to Whistler, 1891-1892, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.6 Howell, Charles Augustus. 2 ALS / photocopy, AN / photocopy to Whistler, 26 August 1874, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.7 Huish, Marcus Bourne, 1845-1921. 2 ALS / photocopies to Whistler, 17 December 1895. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.6 Menpes, Mortimer. 2 ALS / photocopies to Whistler, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.6 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. ALS / photocopy to Whistler, 24 April 1867. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.6 Symons, W. Christian. ALS / photocopy to Whistler, 18 April 1889. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.8 Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. 5 ALS / photocopies to Whistler, 20 April 1886, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. Miscellaneous: 1.9 Haden, Francis Seymour, Sir, 1818-1910. ALS / photocopy to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 16 June 1867. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.9 McCarthy, Justin, 1830-1912. 2 TLS / photocopies to Symons, W. Christian, 28 April and 30 April 1889. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.10 Menpes, Mortimer. 4 ALS / photocopies to Cowan, J. J., 25 July 1903, undated. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.9 Menpes, Mortimer. ALS / photocopy to Symons, W. Christian, 18 April 1889. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.9 Philip, Birnie, Miss. 2 ALS / drafts/ photocopies to Menpes, Mortimer, 2 August 1903. Originals in Glasgow University Library. 1.9 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. AL / photocopy to Wornum, R. N., 14 June 1867. Original in Glasgow University Library. 1.9 Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877. ALS / photocopy to Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 14 June 1867. Original in Glasgow University Library.