BIB_ID
284945
Accession number
MA 2878.18
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1886 Dec. 13.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 13.5 cm
Notes
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
Asking him to return the manuscript poems he has finished with; offering to send him a list of characters in the new book [Sylvie and Bruno]; encouraging him to find a "real live sitter" for each character so he won't make the faces too similar.
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