BIB_ID
413194
Accession number
MA 6397.13
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1894 June 7.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Carroll's reference to "Norah" is to Elizabeth Menella "Minna" Quin, whose stage name was "Norah O'Neill."
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 514.
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 514.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Thanking her for her kindnesses to Dolly [Baird] and Norah [O'Neill]; referring to his previous critical comments about her performance in "Faust" and adding that he "... noticed the other day, that you have quite altered the 'business,' and now wholly omit what I had feared might make some of the audience uneasy. Would you mind telling me, some time, whether the alteration is a permanent one, or merely an accidental difference that day; and, if permanent, whether the change is connected at all with my letter? Our interview the other day was awfully short! That isn't at all the sort of interview I like best with old friends - Tête-à-tête dinner-parties - the guest being, in most cases, a lady, of age varying from 12 to 67 (the maximum I have yet had) : and they are very pleasant! If you were staying in Oxford, I really think (however incredible it may sound) that I should have the 'cheek' to ask you to come and dine so!; adding, in a postscript, "Oh, & heaps of thanks for treating Norah's sisters to a sight of Faust. You have brightened their lives also."
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