Henry Romeike

Identity:

Henry Romeike was the founder of the Romeike news agency.

Life:

Romeike provided Whistler with many of the press-cuttings now kept in his albums in Glasgow University Library. Whistler published correspondence between them in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (1890) which Romeike threatened action for libel.

Bibliography:

Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890 American National Biography, New York and Oxford, 1999, vol. 18, p. 809.