BIB_ID
413329
Accession number
MA 6390.5
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) ; 9.6 x 15 cm
Notes
The puzzle is undated, but Carroll first met Enid Stevens (later Shawyer) on February 27, 1891, and they were friends until his death in 1898.
Carroll has drawn the shape and written out the prompt in pen; an unknown hand has solved the puzzle in pencil. On the verso, there are pencil drawings of people, birds and other creatures and the letters "ABC"; these appear to be a child's drawings.
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 537.
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.
Carroll has drawn the shape and written out the prompt in pen; an unknown hand has solved the puzzle in pencil. On the verso, there are pencil drawings of people, birds and other creatures and the letters "ABC"; these appear to be a child's drawings.
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 537.
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 puzzle with a L-shaped figure and the following prompt: "Four friends had a garden, this shape: and they wanted to divide it into four little gardens, all to be the same size and the same shape."
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