BIB_ID
284914
Accession number
MA 2878.3
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1885 Apr. 20.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
Includes Dodgson's correspondence number (50092).
Part of a collection of 70 letters from Lewis Carroll to Harry Furniss; the letters are described individually (MA 2878.1-70).
Part of a collection of 70 letters from Lewis Carroll to Harry Furniss; the letters are described individually (MA 2878.1-70).
Provenance
Purchased by John Hay Whitney at the Lois C. Levison sale (American Art Association, New York, 12-13 May 1930).
Summary
Thanking him for sending sketches; suggesting the "desirability of showing all the faces" in the illustrations for Sylvie and Bruno; sending a book of John Tenniel's drawings and noting that he thinks them "as a whole better than those in 'Alice.'"
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