BIB_ID
412937
Accession number
MA 6396.2
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1879 02 12.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks to "Miss E.G. Thomson, / Portland Crescent, / Plymouth Grove, / Manchester."
Written from "Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
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.
The letter is 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.
The lines quoted in the letter are from Tennyson's "Sea Fairies", lines 1-4.
Written from "Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
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.
The letter is 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.
The lines quoted in the letter are from Tennyson's "Sea Fairies", lines 1-4.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Sending her a copy of 'Alice' and the 'Looking Glass and suggesting she might donate her extra copy to a children's hospital; saying "There is an incompleteness about giving only one, & besides the one you bought was probably in red, & would not match these - If you are at all in doubt as to what to do with the (now) superfluous copy, let me suggest your giving it to some poor sick child - I have been distributing copies to all the hospitals & convalescent homes I can hear of, where there are sick children capable of reading them, & though of course one takes some pleasure in the popularity of the books elsewhere, it is not nearly so pleasant a thought to me as that they may be a comfort & relief to children in hours of pain & weariness - Still no recipient can be more appropriate than one who seems to have been in fairy land herself & to have been like the 'weary mariners' of old, 'Between the green brink & the running foam / White limbs unrobed in a chrystal air, / Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest / To little harps of gold.' I have more to write to you about fairies, & your unbelief (which I think a heresy) in their reality, but I must put it off to a more leisurely time."
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