BIB_ID
193107
Accession number
MA 8703.1
Creator
Tenniel, John, 1820-1914.
Display Date
1870 Jan. 11.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman, 1982.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Formerly bound in an extra-illustrated edition of Through the Looking-glass (PML 77537), in which are also included 27 original proofs of the illustrations on China paper with Tenniel's pencil corrections; and a pencil sketch portrait of Tenniel from a portrait by Lance Calking exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1902. Removed and transferred to Literary and Historical Manuscripts in 2015.
Summary
Asking whether he is "disposed to undertake the engraving of another little book for Mr. Dodgson" and noting that it "is a continuation of 'Alice's Adventures,' and I am going to work upon it at once. One line please to say "yes.""
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