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Title: Life of James McNeill Whistler,
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Subjects: American Art
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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1846). Yesterday the Empress was welcomed backto St. Petersburg. Last night the illumination which my boys hadbeen eagerly expecting took place. When at 10.30 they came in,Jamie expressed such an eager desire that I would allow him to be myescort just to take a peep at the Nevski that I could not deny him.The effect of the light from Vasili Ostrow was very beautiful, and aswe drove along the Quai, the flowers and decorations of large mansionswere, I thought, even more tasteful. We had to fall into a line ofcarriages in the Isaac Square to enter that Broadway, and just thena shout from the populace announced to us that the Empress was passing.I was terrified lest the poles of their carriages should run into ourbacks, or that some horses might take fright or bite us, we were soclose, but Jamie laughed heartily and aloud at my timidity. He behavedlike a man. With one arm he guarded me, and with the other keptthe animals at a proper distance ; and, I must confess, brilliant as the12 (1846
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PORTRAIT OF \\ HISTLER AS A BOYBy Sir William Boxall & i • In Russia spectacle was, my great pleasure was derived from the conduct of mydear and manly boy. July 7 (i 846). My two boys found much amusement in propellingthemselves on the drawbridge to and from the fancy island in the pondat Mrs. G.s, where we went to spend the day ; they find it such atreat to be in the country, and just run wild, chasing butterflies andpicking the wild flowers so abundant. But nothing gave them so muchpleasure as their 4th July, spent with their little American friendsat Alexandrovsky, the Eastwicks ; the fireworks, percussion caps, muskets,horseback riding, &c, make them think it the most delightful placein Russia. In some way James caught cold, and his throat was soinflamed that leeches were applied, and he has been in consequenceconfined to his room. . . . We spend our mornings in reading, drawing,&c. Then the boys take their row with good John across the Neva,to the morning bath, and

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