Letter from Lewis Carroll, Oxford, to an unidentified recipient, 1882 October 24 : autograph manuscript signed.

Carroll addresses the letter to "My dear Ethel"; it is most likely that he is referring either to Ethel Arnold (1866-1930) or Ethel Hatch (1869-1975), both of whom he saw and corresponded with regularly. However, it is also possible that he is writing to another Ethel. Unfortunately, his diaries from the period do not clarify the matter, and this letter was neither published or referred to in Morton Cohen's The Letters of Lewis Carroll (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979).
Written from "Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
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 10.
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.