BIB_ID
249934
Accession number
MA 6383
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1882 June 5.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.3 x 10 cm
Notes
The letter is addressed to "Katie." In The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Morton Cohen identifies this as Kate Terry Lewis (niece of Ellen Terry), who later married Frank Gielgud. See the full citation below for additional information.
Carroll gives the place of writing as "Ch. Ch. Oxford," using his characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church.
Written in purple ink.
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 48.
The letter is signed C. L. Dodgson. 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.
Written in purple ink.
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 48.
The letter is signed C. L. Dodgson. 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
Inquiring after her mother (the actress Kate Terry), who had been ill; adding "Dr. Giraud gave but a bad account of her last time he wrote: & I suppose he has left you by this time. I shall be very glad to hear she is getting better again"; saying that he hopes she (Katie, the daughter) will be at home the next time he calls; telling her how jealous he was to learn, the last time he called, that she was at the dentist: "A good play, or a gallery of good pictures, is a very delightful thing to go to -- but a Dentist, oh, there are not words (are there?) to describe the delight!"; describing how his eyes went green, and how he alarmed Dr. Giraud with what appeared to be an attack of jaundice but was only "green-eyed jealousy at hearing of dear Katie's happiness! Is not that a curious & interesting anecdote?"; sending kindest regards to her parents and best love to her sisters.
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