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Notes on logic problems : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
413369
Accession number
MA 9766
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1892 September 13.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
One page of the notes is dated 13/9/92; the rest are undated. The dated page has two headings, "Symbolical Logic" and "Figures of Syllogisms."
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 545.
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 four pages of notes and diagrams. Some pages have notes on both the recto and verso.