Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1854 Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC Accession Number: 2005684476 Medium: pen and brown ink Support: buff lined wove paper Size: 12 11/16 x 15 15/16" (322 x 404 mm) Signature: 'J.Whistler' Inscription: letter starting 'Do not be alarmed my dear boy -'
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 179) as 'Sketches in a letter'.