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Letter from Lewis Carroll, Oxford, to G. Sheppard, 1891 November 22 : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
249908
Accession number
MA 6366
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1891 November 22.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.4 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Written in the third person, referring to himself as "Mr. Dodgson."
Carroll gives the place of writing as "Ch. Ch. Oxford," using his characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church.
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 28.
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, on second thoughts, he would rather that Sheppard did not put his "imprint" on the playbills he is printing; explaining that the playbills "will be circulated among people in London, who are strangers to Mr. Dodgson; so he would prefer their giving no indication where, or by whom, they were prepared."