BIB_ID
249709
Accession number
MA 6351
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1897 November 10.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 29.7 x 22.3 cm
Notes
There are numerous calculations in pencil in an unknown hand on the verso.
Carroll gives the place of writing as "Ch. Ch., Oxford," using his characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church.
Bertram Collingwood was Carroll's nephew, the son of his sister Mary.
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 4.
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.
Carroll gives the place of writing as "Ch. Ch., Oxford," using his characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church.
Bertram Collingwood was Carroll's nephew, the son of his sister Mary.
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 4.
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.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Describing a mathematical problem and various methods for working on it; saying that he has made some progress on it, but "I can't give up all my time to the subject: it must take its turn with other subjects"; recommending that Collingwood devote no further time to it until after his next examination; asking him to tell his Aunt Lizzie (probably Elizabeth Lucy, Carroll's older sister) that Carroll will "debit her with 4/ for the Alice"; adding "The other vol. was sent by mistake: ask her to wrap it up, & put it with my other wrapped-up books. I hope you'll soon get a better report of Stuart's damaged foot" (possibly referring to Bertram's older brother Stuart).
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