BIB_ID
249710
Accession number
MA 6352
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Guildford, 1873 December 27.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 14 x 9.1 cm
Notes
Written from The Chestnuts, the family home in Guildford.
Rivers was a curate, a speech therapist and the brother-in-law of James Hunt, the speech therapist that Carroll originally consulted with. On Hunt's death in 1869, Carroll turned to Rivers for help. See The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton Cohen, page 191 (which contains Carroll's first letter to Rivers and Cohen's explanatory note) for additional background.
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 5.
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.
Rivers was a curate, a speech therapist and the brother-in-law of James Hunt, the speech therapist that Carroll originally consulted with. On Hunt's death in 1869, Carroll turned to Rivers for help. See The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton Cohen, page 191 (which contains Carroll's first letter to Rivers and Cohen's explanatory note) for additional background.
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 5.
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
Discussing when he could come and receive instruction from Rivers; writing "I had hoped to hear you were going to be by the sea somewhere for your vacation, so that I could have taken a lodging near you & had the benefit of your instructions, as I should have preferred the sea to Tonbridge in the winter: but if you are moving about, & not settling down anywhere, or if you are going to visit friends, of course that plan would not be feasible"; thanking him for "advice about hard 'C', which I acknowledge as my vanquisher in single-hand combat"; responding to other advice about the use of his jaw and tongue: "as to the direction to 'keep the back of the tongue down', in the moment of difficulty, I fear you might almost as well advise me to stand on my head!"
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