BIB_ID
249841
Accession number
MA 6361
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1852.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.8 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Inscribed: "Read out in Hall. May 22. 1852," indicating that this essay was chosen as a prize theme for recitation in Christ Church Hall on a Saturday afternoon. See Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by Morton N. Cohen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), pages 39-41, for an extended discussion of this and two other similar essays from Carroll's undergraduate days at Christ Church, all in the Morgan's collection.
The Latin title is from Ovid's Tristia, II, 266 ("Nothing aids which may not also injure us").
Contains extensive autograph revisions on the fourth page.
Marked "4" at head of first page.
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 19.
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.
The Latin title is from Ovid's Tristia, II, 266 ("Nothing aids which may not also injure us").
Contains extensive autograph revisions on the fourth page.
Marked "4" at head of first page.
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 19.
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
An essay on the fundamentally ambiguous nature of "the gifts of Nature" and "the faculties of our own minds."
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