The Pennells knew Whistler for his last twenty years and wrote from his papers and his talk: West Point and Paris, the Thames etchings and the Nocturnes, the Peacock Room and the quarrel it caused, the Ruskin trial and the bankruptcy, Venice, and the late years of fame — partisan throughout, and indispensable.
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