BIB_ID
249923
Accession number
MA 6373
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1892 February 25.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.1 x 17.5 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 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 35.
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 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 35.
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 prepare envelopes "large enough to hold a Wine-Card" and "directed to the Members of Common Room," so that the new Agenda Papers and Wine-Cards can be sent around to the members on Saturday the 27th; mentioning that he has not had proofs of the Agenda Papers yet.
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