BIB_ID
249909
Accession number
MA 6367
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1892 April 21.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 16.1 x 12.1 cm
Notes
Written in the third person, referring to himself as "Mr. Dodgson."
Carroll gives the place of writing as "Ch. Ch.", his characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church.
The letter is written on a blue "letter card" with pre-stamped one-penny postage.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr. G. Sheppard, / 1. Walton Crescent, / Oxford."
Sheppard was a printer with whom Carroll corresponded during 1891 and 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 29.
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.
Carroll gives the place of writing as "Ch. Ch.", his characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church.
The letter is written on a blue "letter card" with pre-stamped one-penny postage.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr. G. Sheppard, / 1. Walton Crescent, / Oxford."
Sheppard was a printer with whom Carroll corresponded during 1891 and 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 29.
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 no more play-bills are wanted and therefore "the type may now be distributed."
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