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Letter from Lewis Carroll, Eastbourne, to G. Sheppard, 1891 August 9 : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
249907
Accession number
MA 6365
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Eastbourne, 1891 August 9.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 10.1 x 15.5 cm
Notes
Written in the third person, referring to himself as "Mr. Dodgson."
Carroll gives the place of writing as "7. Lushington Road, / Eastbourne."
The recipient was a printer with offices at 1 Walton Crescent, Oxford in 1891-1892.
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 27.
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
Saying that he has received the extra 50 circulars; asking Sheppard to send him 100 scoring-papers "as soon as he conveniently he can."