BIB_ID
373079
Accession number
MA 8624.2
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1885 June 11.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 7.4 x 12.1 cm
Notes
Written in looking-glass writing (i.e., reversed).
The date and place of writing have been taken from the postmark. The date on the postmark is "J 11 85"; using Carroll's diaries, the scholar Morton Cohen has established that the month of writing was June, not January. See the full citation below for additional information.
Addressed on the verso to: "Miss May 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 8624.1.
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 and place of writing have been taken from the postmark. The date on the postmark is "J 11 85"; using Carroll's diaries, the scholar Morton Cohen has established that the month of writing was June, not January. See the full citation below for additional information.
Addressed on the verso to: "Miss May 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 8624.1.
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
Saying he will pick her up after 10:30 and take her, first, to Brown & Co. to have her hair shaved and to be fitted with a wig; second, to Smith & Co. "to be nicely rouged & have the edges of your eyelids blackened"; and lastly, "when you have been made presentable," to "see his Highness the Mikado."
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