BIB_ID
332630
Accession number
MA 6393
Creator
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
Display Date
London, 1877 May 23.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages + 2-page note by Carroll) ; 17.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
The letter has Carroll's letter record number at upper right on the first page.
On mourning stationery, with embossed letterhead: "9, Albert Mansions, / S. W."
This item is part of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection. The large collection includes printed books, letters, manuscripts, puzzles and games, personal effects and ephemera, which have been cataloged separately.
Removed from the "Carrolliana" album (MA 6347) assembled by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., folio 6.
The letter is addressed to "The Revd. C. L. Dodgson." Charles Lutwidge Dodgson adopted the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll" in 1856 when publishing a poem in "The Train." He used the pseudonym when publishing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other works, but wrote under his given name, Charles Dodgson, when publishing mathematical works and in daily life.
On mourning stationery, with embossed letterhead: "9, Albert Mansions, / S. W."
This item is part of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection. The large collection includes printed books, letters, manuscripts, puzzles and games, personal effects and ephemera, which have been cataloged separately.
Removed from the "Carrolliana" album (MA 6347) assembled by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., folio 6.
The letter is addressed to "The Revd. C. L. Dodgson." Charles Lutwidge Dodgson adopted the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll" in 1856 when publishing a poem in "The Train." He used the pseudonym when publishing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other works, but wrote under his given name, Charles Dodgson, when publishing mathematical works and in daily life.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Giving his standard terms for the publication and performance of his musical compositions; saying that he asks publishers for "one hundred guineas down and 6d a copy after 5,000 are sold" for "ordinary concert songs" and will make concessions if there is a "singers' royalty"; adding that he keeps the dramatic right of perfoming the music, but does not charge for this right: "on the contrary, [I] encourage its performance when I can, in order to help the sale of the song"; saying that he wouldn't consider the songs for a theatrical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland to be "concert songs", and so the the terms would be slightly different: "I would set them to music for thirty guineas each, [merely] stipulating that if the sale of each reached 5000 I should then receive a royalty of 6d a copy on all sold beyond that number."
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