BIB_ID
413190
Accession number
MA 6397.12
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1894 April 11.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm
Notes
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 513.
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 513.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Asking if she had received a copy of "Sylvie and Bruno" that he sent her on December 12, 1889; saying "I don't yet know whether the said actress received the said book, or not. Perhaps she didn't? Or perhaps she said to herself 'Really, I can't acknowledge such rubbish as this !' If she did receive it, I would be glad to know what I wrote in it, that I may put a similar inscription in "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded;" thanking her help to his cousin, Minna Quin, saying "...it is such a comfort to her to be taken on at such a theatre as the Lyceum, even if she earns only a trifle, and has only to 'walk on';" relating personal details about Minna Quin and her sisters, Alice, Marion and Isobel; relating an incident concerning Alice and an injury she sustained while working the previous summer at the Brighton Hospital; ending in mid-sentence as he is describing the process of grafting in an operation to heal a large wound.
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