Letter from Lewis Carroll, Guildford, to Mary Suter Brown, 1872 January 1 : autograph manuscript signed.

Written from "Chestnuts" (usually referred to as The Chestnuts), the family home in Guildford.
Carroll and Brown met in 1871 and corresponded for many years, though they met in person only a few times, as Brown lived in Scotland. In his edition of Carroll's correspondence, Morton Cohen includes a number of the letters they exchanged; see The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), volume I, page 373, for a note describing their first meeting and further information about Brown and her family.
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 8.
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.