BIB_ID
413363
Accession number
MA 9761
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford?, 1889 June.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Margaret Bowman (called "Maggie" or "Mattie") was a child actress, along with her sisters Isabella ("Isa"), Helen ("Nellie"), Emma ("Empsie") and her brother Charles. She married Thomas James Morton in 1902.
It is not known exactly when (or where) Carroll composed and typed this poem, but it appears to have been during or soon after the visit that the poem commemorates, which occurred from June 9th to 13th in 1889. Margaret Bowman came to Oxford because she was appearing in a production of Hugh Moss's "Bootle's Baby," which is referred to in the poem. See The Letters of Lewis Carroll, edited by Morton N. Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979); volume II, page 860, note 1, for a discussion of the visit and the poem.
This typescript was acquired with a galley proof of thirteen stanzas from the poem, which has been cataloged separately as MA 9767.
Title transcribed from typescript.
Carroll created an autograph ornamental title page for the poem. The title is also in Carroll's hand, and he has added underlinings and one autograph line elsewhere in the typescript, along with his autograph signature.
The second page is not part of the original typescript; it is a later addition made necessary because of the loss of the original page. See Margaret Bowman Morton's letters (housed with the typescript) and the collection files for more information.
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 882.
Formerly bound in a morocco case; binding discarded.
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.
It is not known exactly when (or where) Carroll composed and typed this poem, but it appears to have been during or soon after the visit that the poem commemorates, which occurred from June 9th to 13th in 1889. Margaret Bowman came to Oxford because she was appearing in a production of Hugh Moss's "Bootle's Baby," which is referred to in the poem. See The Letters of Lewis Carroll, edited by Morton N. Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979); volume II, page 860, note 1, for a discussion of the visit and the poem.
This typescript was acquired with a galley proof of thirteen stanzas from the poem, which has been cataloged separately as MA 9767.
Title transcribed from typescript.
Carroll created an autograph ornamental title page for the poem. The title is also in Carroll's hand, and he has added underlinings and one autograph line elsewhere in the typescript, along with his autograph signature.
The second page is not part of the original typescript; it is a later addition made necessary because of the loss of the original page. See Margaret Bowman Morton's letters (housed with the typescript) and the collection files for more information.
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 882.
Formerly bound in a morocco case; binding discarded.
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 poem of thirty-one stanzas, recounting events from Margaret Bowman's visit to Oxford.
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