BIB_ID
413322
Accession number
MA 6390.4
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1891-1898.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.1 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Title from first line of poem.
The page is undated, but Carroll first met Enid Stevens (later Shawyer) on February 27, 1891, and they were friends until his death in 1898. It is not known when he copied out this verse for her.
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 538.
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.
The page is undated, but Carroll first met Enid Stevens (later Shawyer) on February 27, 1891, and they were friends until his death in 1898. It is not known when he copied out this verse for her.
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 538.
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 a six-line poem written by the seventeenth-century minister Isaac Watts that serves as a mnemonic device for remembering the twelve constellations.
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