BIB_ID
193133
Accession number
MA 9764
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1890 May 30.
Credit line
Purchased, 1982.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.7 x 8.8 cm.
Notes
Written in purple ink.
Written from '"Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
The letter is signed C.L Dodgson. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson adopted the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll" in 1856 when publishing a poem in "The Train." He used the pseudonym when publishing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other works, but wrote under his given name, Charles Dodgson, when publishing mathematical works and in daily life. For administrative purposes, all manuscripts are collated under the name Lewis Carroll.
The recipient was the mother of Carroll's "Alice."
Removed from a copy of The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (PML 77538).
Written from '"Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
The letter is signed C.L Dodgson. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson adopted the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll" in 1856 when publishing a poem in "The Train." He used the pseudonym when publishing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other works, but wrote under his given name, Charles Dodgson, when publishing mathematical works and in daily life. For administrative purposes, all manuscripts are collated under the name Lewis Carroll.
The recipient was the mother of Carroll's "Alice."
Removed from a copy of The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (PML 77538).
Provenance
Purchased with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman, 1982.
Summary
Declining an invitation due to a business engagement in London; expressing relief that the "kind wish" of the Duchess of Albany, "...relieves me from a long-standing fear that I had given offence to her by my boldness in asking for the autographs of the children, & that they might be written on the back of a photograph of them. I wrote that (rather presumptuous) request early in January, & though no notice of it was ever taken by H.R.H., I still thought it best to fulfil, in March, my promise to send the coloured 'Alice' to her little namesake. That went on Mar. 23, &, as no notice was taken of it, either, I felt there were grounds for the fear that I had given offence - With many thanks, both to yourself & to the Duchess..."
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