BIB_ID
284921
Accession number
MA 2878.7
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1885 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.5 cm
Notes
Includes a page of notes in pencil (p. 4) that may be written by Harry Furniss.
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
Suggesting an interpretation of Sylvie and Bruno in which the spider has "strictly honorable intentions" toward Miss Muffet; sending a sketch of "the romantic old beau."
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