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[James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist; Rosalind Birnie Philip] Substantial Autograph Letter Signed R. Birnie Philip to Frank Rutter, art critic, curator and activist who's questioned her preparing for his biography of Whistler.

Author: 
Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sometime companion etc. [see Note]
Publication details: 
103 Albert Bridge Road, 29 April 1909 [Rutter's Whistler, a Biography and an Estimate, published 1910.
£380.00

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. Text: [Note about his requests] You are no doubt aware that Mr Whistler strongly objected to anything in the nature of a Biography or a life of himself being published, and in these circumstances I do not feel that I should co-operate in any work of that kind although I have no objection to your doing in moderation what others have already done with regard to the illustrations. | As regards the publication of quotations or extracts from books such as the Ten O'Clock [Mr.

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