BIB_ID
284940
Accession number
MA 2878.16
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1886 Nov. 27.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21 cm
Notes
Includes Dodgson's correspondence number (55800).
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
Telling Furniss he has picked out four subjects for pictures in "Bruno's Revenge"; describing his idea of each illustration; discussing "how little dress" will be acceptable for the children in Sylvie and Bruno because "naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely."
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