BIB_ID
413309
Accession number
MA 9758.4
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1897 June 14.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.6 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Included in this small collection is an envelope with a stamp and an Oxford postmark dated May 24, 1897. It does not have a corresponding letter.
Place and date of writing from published letter cited below.
With autograph computations on the verso.
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 517.
Place and date of writing from published letter cited below.
With autograph computations on the verso.
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 517.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Inviting her "...to come & dine with me, & a very dear friend, Edith Rix, on the 22nd, & then see the Illuminations? If so, would it also be possible for Margaret Mayhew to come too?"
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