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Aet. 42, to an American artist. Whistler soon wrote about George Moore to Harry Cust, who had declined to print more attacks in the Pall Mall Gazette: “I will try to please you by pursuing him no more. But he is utterly weak and unreliable, if not unscrupulous” (John Robertson Scott, The Life and Death of a Newspaper, 1952, page 368).

Whistler’s correspondence with William Heinemann concerning George Moore’s perfidy was noted in the American Art Association’s sale catalogue for 13 January 1922: “remember that as my publisher you must have nothing to do with the enemy.” Whereabouts of that correspondence is unknown.