BIB_ID
412886
Accession number
MA 6396.1-8
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1878-1880.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
8 items (10 pages), bound ; various sizes
Notes
Written from Christ Church, Oxford.
Written in purple ink.
This volume 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.
The letters are signed 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. For administrative purposes, all manuscripts are collated under the name Lewis Carroll.
Written in purple ink.
This volume 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.
The letters are signed 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. 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
Being a small bound collection of letters, notes, photographs and illustrations related to Lewis Carroll and E. Gertrude Thomson in the early years of their friendship and working relationship; comprising one autograph letter, written in the third person, from Carroll to Mr. Ackermann asking for Miss Thomson's address with Ackermann's reply on the verso; one autograph letter signed from Carroll to Thomson, discussing her interest in fairies and his distribution of his "Alice" books to children in hospitals; two calling cards with autograph notes on the verso; three portrait photographs of Carroll, one, an assisted self portrait, inscribed to Thomson on the verso; three two-line autograph verses dated July 1, 1879 which were never published and are housed here with three illustrations Thomson created for Christmas cards. Items in the collection have been described individually in six individual records; see related records for more information (MA 6396.1-8).
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