BIB_ID
413268
Accession number
MA 9756
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Richmond, 1845 August 21.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (18 pages) ; 11.8 x 9.4 cm cm
Notes
According to Morton N. Cohen in his publication "Lewis Carroll and Alice / 1832-1982", page 35, published by The Pierpont Morgan Library in 1982, "Carroll began to compile this vocabulary aid on 21 August 1845, when he was thirteen, just after he had become a schoolboy at Richmond School, Yorkshire."
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.
Previously accessioned as AAH 532.
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.
Previously accessioned as AAH 532.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Being an eighteen-page autograph manuscript,written in a small hand-made notebook, of vocabulary words, definitions and notes to the first thirty-nine lines of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound." Carroll notes at the top of the first page "Begun Aug. 21, 1845."
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