BIB_ID
284942
Accession number
MA 2878.17
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1886 Nov. 29.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21 cm
Notes
Includes Dodgson's correspondence number (55818).
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
Arguing that a picture of animals in Sylvie and Bruno does not need to be in proportion: "if you can so far strain your standard of zoological propriety, I think we shall gain in drollery"; noting that he is charmed with Furniss's idea of dressing Sylvie in white; proposing that they make Sylvie's fairy dress transparent; asking him not to give Sylvie high heels because "they are an abomination."
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