Record ID:
284946
Accession number:
MA 2878.19
Credit:
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 21 cm
Notes:
The letter is incomplete; this is the final page of a six-page letter.
Includes Dodgson's correspondence number (56028) and the page number 6.
Part of a collection of 70 letters from Lewis Carroll to Harry Furniss; the letters are described individually (MA 2878.1-70).
Summary:
Assuring him that no one else knows anything about the contents of the book; telling him he has shown some of the illustrations to "some special friends" but has "uniformly declined to explain them"; noting that he will draw up a formal agreement after hearing Furniss's views "on these matters" [it is unclear what these matters are from this fragment of the letter]; giving "Xmas, 1887" as the projected publication date for Sylvie and Bruno.
Provenance:
Purchased by John Hay Whitney at the Lois C. Levison sale (American Art Association, New York, 12-13 May 1930).
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