BIB_ID
285165
Accession number
MA 2878.49
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1889 Oct. 9.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 13.5 cm
Notes
Includes black pen marks on p. 1, including one that is obscuring the date.
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 his "sudden thought" that Lady Muriel could be kneeling on one knee in an illustration for Sylvie and Bruno; encouraging Furniss to "make the picture of [Lady Muriel] a dreamy echo of that of [Sylvie] helping the beetle."
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