BIB_ID
269443
Accession number
MA 6390.1-8
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898, author.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1891-1898.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, 1987.
Description
1 volume (8 items), bound ; 33.7 x 28 cm
Notes
Enid Stevens married James Anderson Shawyer in 1904.
Four letters previously housed in this volume have been removed from it and housed in Unbound English. They are cataloged as MA 9758.1-4.
This volume 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.
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.
Four letters previously housed in this volume have been removed from it and housed in Unbound English. They are cataloged as MA 9758.1-4.
This volume 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.
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
Being a collection comprising five autograph puzzles, poems and riddles sent or given by Lewis Carroll to Enid Stevens (later Enid Stevens Shawyer), two autograph letters from Carroll to Stevens, and one typescript of poems. Some of the puzzles, poems and riddles are Carroll's inventions, and some are copies made by him of material originally created by others, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Isaac Watts. The items include nursery rhymes, riddles, and word and number puzzles and games. One of the letters is written in a miniature hand. People mentioned in the letters include Enid Stevens's sister Winifred (later Winifred Stevens Hawke) and her mother Edith Headland Stevens. Items in the collection have been described individually in eight separate catalog records; see related records for more information (MA 6390.1-8).
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