BIB_ID
413125
Accession number
MA 6397.6
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1881 April 15.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.2 x 8.6 cm
Notes
Addressed as "Dear Mrs. Wardell." Ellen Terry married Charles Wardell in 1877.
Written on mourning stationery in purple ink.
Written from '"Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
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.
Previously accessioned as AAH 479.
Written on mourning stationery in purple ink.
Written from '"Ch. Ch.", Carroll's abbreviation for Christ Church.
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.
Previously accessioned as AAH 479.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Asking if she might be able to get him tickets for a performance at the Lyceum; saying he is coming to London with Mr. Sampson, a mathematics colleague at Oxford and that their original plans were to see "Masks & Faces" "...but I have just remembered that it is not a night when Mr. Bancroft plays Triplet (at least Polly told me he does it Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday) & I don't care to see Mr. Cecil do it - So we shall probably not come to town at all, unless it were possible to get into the Lyceum - I feel sure that on the 2nd night of a new piece, no outsider has a chance of a ticket, not even at Mitchell's, without sending a fortnight beforehand - So I write this on the wild chance that you may be able to smuggle us in somehow - If you ca'n't do it, don't trouble to write - I shall understand silence to mean a negative."
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