BIB_ID
269564
Accession number
MA 6390.8
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1891 March 15.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 10.6 x 6.3 cm + envelope
Notes
This is one of a number of letters that Carroll wrote in a miniature hand.
Carroll gives the place of writing as "Ch. Ch. Oxford," using his characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church.
On stationery printed with two green parrots in the upper lefthand corner.
Envelope addressed to: "Miss Enid Stevens, / 13. Canterbury Road, / Oxford."
Bound in an album titled "Lewis Carroll and Enid Stevens."
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.
Previously accessioned as AAH 492.
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.
On stationery printed with two green parrots in the upper lefthand corner.
Envelope addressed to: "Miss Enid Stevens, / 13. Canterbury Road, / Oxford."
Bound in an album titled "Lewis Carroll and Enid Stevens."
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.
Previously accessioned as AAH 492.
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
Asking Enid to tell her mother (Edith Headland Stevens) how surprised and pleased he was by her letter; saying that he hopes she will bring Enid to have tea with him on "some afternoon when you happen not to be in a passion: for it wo'n't do to have screaming children in College: it would vex the Dean ever so much"; sending her his love; telling her to "[g]et a hammer, and knock it ever so hard, till it comes in two, and then give Winnie [her older sister Winifred] half."
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