BIB_ID
249904
Accession number
MA 6362
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
London?, 1893 June 17.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 14 x 8.7 cm
Notes
Carroll gives the place of writing as "G. W. Railway," for the Great Western Railway. In The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Cohen suggests that this letter may have been written in Paddington Station, London. See the full citation below for additional information.
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 20.
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.
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 20.
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
Congratulating him on earning his degree at Cambridge; saying that he rejoices that "your undergraduate life at Cambridge has so entirely matched Stuart's [Bertram's brother] at Oxford, not only in the negative quality of 'sans peur et sans reproche,' but also in the having won real honour in the Schools"; writing "My chief ground of satisfaction, however, is (as I doubt not it is yours also) the thought of the deep joy you will have thus given to your father & mother by your success, & by the proof it gives that your career has been one of hard & steady work"; saying he has been glad to be of financial help, "but all would have been in vain if there had not been, supplied by you, the far more important item of work"; wishing him well for the future.
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