Letter to William Heinemann with corrections for Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict

Whistler disseminated ideas about art in his “Ten O’Clock” lecture and the pamphlets that recorded it as well as The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, a compendium of his newspaper correspondence issued in book form in 1890. Eight years later he enlisted William Heinemann, publisher of the Gentle Art, to produce a booklet to broadcast—and immortalize—the favorable outcome of Whistler’s legal case against Sir William Eden, which vindicated his position that artists had the right to control their own work. Whistler’s scrawled corrections on this sheet of stationery from a Paris hotel are related to that publication.