BIB_ID
249911
Accession number
MA 6369
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1891 November 10.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 12.8 x 20.4 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 31.
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. 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 31.
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 would like to get "some play-bills for some friends" and that he is enclosing one as an example; discussing the design of the playbills: "There need not be any red ink: but there should be plenty of variety of ornamental type, to make them look handsome"; asking for six proofs.
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