BIB_ID
413063
Accession number
MA 6399.1
Display Date
London, 1929 January 7.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.1 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Typed on the letterhead of Maggs Bros., 34 & 35 Conduit Street, New Bond St. W.1. / London.
With a stamped signature "Maggs Bros."
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.
This letter is part of a small four-letter collection of correspondence (MA 6399.1-4) related to a request for photographs of Miss E. Gertrude Thomson by an American Lewis Carroll collector, J. Enrique Zanetti. These letters continue a conversation between Miss Thomson and Maggs Bros. found in MA 6398.2, a bound collection of letters and photographs related to Miss Thomson and Lewis Carroll, specifically an autograph letter signed by Miss Thomson to Maggs Bros., dated January 3, 1929, in reply to a request made by an American collector to Maggs Bros. for photographs of her and MA 6398.1, an autograph letter signed by Katherine M. Horne, dated June 5, 1929, which follows on the Horne letter in this collection and provides more biographical detail on Miss Thomson.
J. Enrique Zanetti was a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University from 1909 until his retirement in 1953, serving as Provost at the University from 1948-1950. Zanetti was a major Carroll collector and was instrumental in planning the Lewis Carroll Centenary exhibition at Columbia University in 1932 at which Alice Liddell Hargreaves was awarded an Honorary Degree.
The reply from Miss Thomson referred to in his letter is dated January 3, 1929 and is described in MA 6398.2.
With a stamped signature "Maggs Bros."
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.
This letter is part of a small four-letter collection of correspondence (MA 6399.1-4) related to a request for photographs of Miss E. Gertrude Thomson by an American Lewis Carroll collector, J. Enrique Zanetti. These letters continue a conversation between Miss Thomson and Maggs Bros. found in MA 6398.2, a bound collection of letters and photographs related to Miss Thomson and Lewis Carroll, specifically an autograph letter signed by Miss Thomson to Maggs Bros., dated January 3, 1929, in reply to a request made by an American collector to Maggs Bros. for photographs of her and MA 6398.1, an autograph letter signed by Katherine M. Horne, dated June 5, 1929, which follows on the Horne letter in this collection and provides more biographical detail on Miss Thomson.
J. Enrique Zanetti was a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University from 1909 until his retirement in 1953, serving as Provost at the University from 1948-1950. Zanetti was a major Carroll collector and was instrumental in planning the Lewis Carroll Centenary exhibition at Columbia University in 1932 at which Alice Liddell Hargreaves was awarded an Honorary Degree.
The reply from Miss Thomson referred to in his letter is dated January 3, 1929 and is described in MA 6398.2.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Replying to Zanetti's request for a "...recent photograph of Miss Thomson - we have received from her the enclosed reply which you may like at least to put with the Presentation copies to her of Carroll's books, which you have. You will notice she raises the query as to a Memoir she is writing, and we have mentioned to her that you are a collector, not a publisher."
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