BIB_ID
413320
Accession number
MA 6390.3
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1891-1898.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.1 cm
Notes
The document is undated, but Carroll first met Enid Stevens (later Shawyer) on February 27, 1891, and they were friends until his death in 1898.
None of the poems in this typescript was written by Carroll, and it is not known on what specific occasion these particular verses were typed up and presented to Enid Stevens. However, it is known that he used his Hammond typewriter to entertain his child-friends and the typescript may have been produced on one of these occasions. For instance, Carroll's diary entry for April 4, 1891 records the following: "Mrs. Stevens & Enid came to tea, typewriter etc. etc." (Lewis Carroll's Diaries, edited by Edward Wakeling, published by the Lewis Carroll Society, 1993-2005, volume 8, page 556).
Bound in an album titled "Lewis Carroll and Enid Stevens."
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 881.
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.
None of the poems in this typescript was written by Carroll, and it is not known on what specific occasion these particular verses were typed up and presented to Enid Stevens. However, it is known that he used his Hammond typewriter to entertain his child-friends and the typescript may have been produced on one of these occasions. For instance, Carroll's diary entry for April 4, 1891 records the following: "Mrs. Stevens & Enid came to tea, typewriter etc. etc." (Lewis Carroll's Diaries, edited by Edward Wakeling, published by the Lewis Carroll Society, 1993-2005, volume 8, page 556).
Bound in an album titled "Lewis Carroll and Enid Stevens."
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 881.
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.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Consisting of three poems or extracts from poems: 1) the first verse from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "The Romance of the Swan's Nest"; 2) a limerick about "a young lady of Riga" who goes for a ride on a tiger; and 3) a poem about a little lamb who steps on the speaker's toe, from Eaton Stannard Barrett's novel The Heroine: or Adventures of Cherubina.
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