BIB_ID
373078
Accession number
MA 8624.1
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Eastbourne, 1884 September 14.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 7.5 x 12.1 cm
Notes
Written in looking-glass writing (i.e., reversed).
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
Carroll gives the place of writing as "7. Lushington Road, / Eastbourne."
Addressed on the verso to: "Miss Mary Mileham, / Whinside, / The Common, / Chislehurst." Carroll met Mary Mileham (called "May") on the beach at Eastbourne on August 8, 1884, and they were friends and correspondents for several years. In 1905, she married Courtenay Melville Crickmer.
Written in purple ink.
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.
One of two postcards from Carroll to Mary Mileham in the Houghton collection; the other is described separately as MA 8624.2.
Signed "C. L. D." for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 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. For administrative purposes, all manuscripts are collated under the name Lewis Carroll.
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
Carroll gives the place of writing as "7. Lushington Road, / Eastbourne."
Addressed on the verso to: "Miss Mary Mileham, / Whinside, / The Common, / Chislehurst." Carroll met Mary Mileham (called "May") on the beach at Eastbourne on August 8, 1884, and they were friends and correspondents for several years. In 1905, she married Courtenay Melville Crickmer.
Written in purple ink.
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.
One of two postcards from Carroll to Mary Mileham in the Houghton collection; the other is described separately as MA 8624.2.
Signed "C. L. D." for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 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. For administrative purposes, all manuscripts are collated under the name Lewis Carroll.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Asking her to send him a lock of her hair: "It wo'n't be too heavy to come by post. It should be about 3 inches long, & should have a piece of silk tied round the middle to keep it together. The key can be sent another time."
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