BIB_ID
285138
Accession number
MA 2878.43
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1889 Sept. 30.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (6 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes a sketch of Eric on a train track holding up the baby Bruno to Lady Muriel on the platform (p. 6).
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
Thanking him for "the quite delightful set of finished drawings": "I am entirely satisfied with them, and have not a criticism to offer"; discussing in detail the illustration for the "railway-scene" in Sylvie and Bruno; thanking him for the list of dogs.
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