Riddle and anagram by Lewis Carroll : autograph manuscript.

The document is undated. In a letter to Mrs. Louisa Powell MacDonald dated March 3, 1875, Carroll includes the riddle and says that he invented it "the other night." See The Letters of Lewis Carroll, edited by Morton N. Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), volume I, page 221, for the reference. Carroll also sent this riddle to the child Gaynor Simpson, and he "deciphered" it for her (giving mock solutions) in two letters that may have been written in February 1880 (Cohen, page 367).
The subject of the anagram, Edward Vaughan Kenealy, was the lawyer for the claimant in the Tichborne case (1871-1874). Carroll mentions having figured out the anagram "last night after getting into bed" in a letter to Francis Paget dated February 21 and possibly written in 1874 (Cohen, page 208.)
Written in purple ink.
This item is part of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection. The large collection includes printed books, letters, manuscripts, puzzles and games, personal effects and ephemera, which have been cataloged separately.
Removed from the "Carrolliana" album (MA 6347) assembled by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., folio 2.
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.