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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Portion of an autograph letter signed C.L. Dodgson : [Christ Church, Oxford], to Harry Furniss, [1885 Mar. or Apr.?].

BIB_ID
284913
Accession number
MA 2878.2
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
[1885 Mar. or Apr.?].
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.8 cm
Notes
Includes Dodgson's correspondence number (49874) and the page number 5.
Part of a collection of 70 letters from Lewis Carroll to Harry Furniss; the letters are described individually (MA 2878.1-70).
This is the final page of a longer letter.
Provenance
Purchased by John Hay Whitney at the Lois C. Levison sale (American Art Association, New York, 12-13 May 1930).
Summary
Discussing how they will collaborate on Sylvie and Bruno; noting that he wants "the costume of the day avoided if possible"; asking if Furniss can find cardboard that will "give as good a surface as wood."