BIB_ID
413334
Accession number
MA 6390.6
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) ; 9.8 x 7.5 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.
On the verso, there are lines of letters and numbers in Carroll's hand; these may represent a code.
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 536.
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.
On the verso, there are lines of letters and numbers in Carroll's hand; these may represent a code.
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 536.
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 the following prompt: "Put 9 dots so as to make 10 rows with 3 dots in each row." Under this, there are 9 dots connected with lines in a triangular shape (there are only 6 rows, so this image does not represent the solution to the puzzle).
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