BIB_ID
249931
Accession number
MA 6381
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Place not identified, between 1871 and 1891.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 32.7 x 20.8 cm
Notes
Written in purple ink.
The document is undated. Carroll began using purple ink for his correspondence and writings in around 1871 and used it through 1891, so it is likely that this document was created during that period.
Titles taken from manuscript.
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 44.
Signed Lewis Carroll. 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.
The document is undated. Carroll began using purple ink for his correspondence and writings in around 1871 and used it through 1891, so it is likely that this document was created during that period.
Titles taken from manuscript.
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 44.
Signed Lewis Carroll. 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
Consisting of four poems written for various children, including two daughters of an artist (identified by scholars as Agnes and Emily Hughes, the daughters of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes) and two girls from Canada who had sent Carroll their photograph. All of the poems are puzzles: three of the poems are double acrostics and one is a charade.
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