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Earlier, on another thread, I mentioned the Star News reporter (Claude Mellor) had disembarked from a steamship at a Chelsea Pier and headed up the embankment. It appears to me now, he had to be headed up Grosvenor Road (not along the banks of the Thames) and upon approaching the Shelley house he noticed a large wrapped parcel thrown in the underbrush near the railings of the garden. He fetched PC Jones, 182B and together they entered the yard, through the stables, and found the package contained the right thigh of a woman, wrapped in a blue and white checked "pocket". The thigh was later confirmed to belong to the body of Elizabeth Jackson.
I have been uncertain whether or not the Shelley estate would even contain stables, so I was unclear if the thigh was actually on their property or on the east side gardens of the Victoria Hospital. Until now.
I located a letter from James Whistler stating his displeasure of having the Shelley Stables as his neighbor. Whistler lived on Tite Street in the "White House" which would have boardered the Shelley Estate. Below are the extracts of that letter and one other and some pictures which may show the gate to the stables of the Shelley House?
https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/...lay/?cid=06163
"It will in due course dawn upon the Board that Mr Böehm Mr Leighton or Mr Watts if works of art require thought and time! - and that the elbow of Mr Böehm, Mr Leighton or Mr Watts[6] may not be jogged - that no limit can therefor[e] be assigned to the completion of the bas reliefs with which they stipulated my house shall be enriched - weeks or months even must go by - during which (I doubt if under less than a year would be entertained) during which time I must wait in the street - unless after all the Board are content to stultify themselves and after insisting upon my covering with costly palatial ornament a simple house in a back street with Sir Percy Shellys[7] stables [p. 3] for a neighbor,
Percy F. Shelley's home, Shelley House, in Chelsea Embankment, held a private theatre from 1881. JW's White House, designed by E. W. Godwin, and situated on Tite Street, was apparently next to his stables (#06163).
Looking up the road in the first picture, you would run into Oscar Wildes home at #34 Tite Street and further up at #9 Tite street, about 1887, Sir Melville MacNaghten made his home upon returning from India.
I have been uncertain whether or not the Shelley estate would even contain stables, so I was unclear if the thigh was actually on their property or on the east side gardens of the Victoria Hospital. Until now.
I located a letter from James Whistler stating his displeasure of having the Shelley Stables as his neighbor. Whistler lived on Tite Street in the "White House" which would have boardered the Shelley Estate. Below are the extracts of that letter and one other and some pictures which may show the gate to the stables of the Shelley House?
https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/...lay/?cid=06163
"It will in due course dawn upon the Board that Mr Böehm Mr Leighton or Mr Watts if works of art require thought and time! - and that the elbow of Mr Böehm, Mr Leighton or Mr Watts[6] may not be jogged - that no limit can therefor[e] be assigned to the completion of the bas reliefs with which they stipulated my house shall be enriched - weeks or months even must go by - during which (I doubt if under less than a year would be entertained) during which time I must wait in the street - unless after all the Board are content to stultify themselves and after insisting upon my covering with costly palatial ornament a simple house in a back street with Sir Percy Shellys[7] stables [p. 3] for a neighbor,
Percy F. Shelley's home, Shelley House, in Chelsea Embankment, held a private theatre from 1881. JW's White House, designed by E. W. Godwin, and situated on Tite Street, was apparently next to his stables (#06163).
Looking up the road in the first picture, you would run into Oscar Wildes home at #34 Tite Street and further up at #9 Tite street, about 1887, Sir Melville MacNaghten made his home upon returning from India.
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