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May I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography!
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After a Dutch newspaper prematurely reported his death in 1902

 

James McNeill Whistler

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