BIB_ID
249921
Accession number
MA 6371
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Eastbourne, 1891 August 31.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.3 x 17.7 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 33.
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 "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 33.
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
Asking Sheppard to print 250 more Syzygies scoring papers; saying that he would like ten immediately and the rest can follow later; specifying that they be printed on both sides.
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