BIB_ID
413293
Accession number
MA 9758.2
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1895 June 3.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.1 x 18.1 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 with the initials CLD. 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.
Removed from a bound collection of autograph manuscripts and letters titled "Lewis Carroll and Enid Stevens" (MA 6390.1-8).
Previously accessioned as AAH 515.
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 with the initials CLD. 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.
Removed from a bound collection of autograph manuscripts and letters titled "Lewis Carroll and Enid Stevens" (MA 6390.1-8).
Previously accessioned as AAH 515.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Concerning a clock he gave her; saying "I'm afraid it wasn't worth your acceptance - It was one of two that had been on my chimney-piece for ever so long, out of order - I got them put right again at Rowell's, & brought you one - Tell me what sort of time it keeps : the other wretched thing loses at least 5 minutes a day : if yours also goes wrong, I'll take it to Rowell's again."
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