BIB_ID
285195
Accession number
MA 2878.57
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
1890 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (3 p.) : ill. ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Includes a sketch of Sylvie and a spider web on p. 3.
Part of a collection of 70 letters from Lewis Carroll to Harry Furniss; the letters are described individually (MA 2878.1-70).
The top of p. 3 has been cut away and 3 lines are missing.
Part of a collection of 70 letters from Lewis Carroll to Harry Furniss; the letters are described individually (MA 2878.1-70).
The top of p. 3 has been cut away and 3 lines are missing.
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 pages from Sylvie and Bruno concluded so they can be "cut up and pieced together again with some new matter"; encouraging him to add to the "cupboard pictures" items that are "yet more incongruous, and less likely to be found in a cupboard."
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