BIB_ID
413974
Accession number
MA 9767
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Place not identified, not before 1889.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 38.3 x 13 cm
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 where or by whom this galley proof was created. The visit that the poem commemorates occurred from June 9th to 13th in 1889. (The proof incorrectly gives these dates as "June 9 to 13, 1899.") 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 proof was acquired with the original typescript of the poem, which has been cataloged separately as MA 9761.
Title transcribed from the proof.
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 part of 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 where or by whom this galley proof was created. The visit that the poem commemorates occurred from June 9th to 13th in 1889. (The proof incorrectly gives these dates as "June 9 to 13, 1899.") 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 proof was acquired with the original typescript of the poem, which has been cataloged separately as MA 9761.
Title transcribed from the proof.
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 part of 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 thirteen stanzas from a poem recounting events from Margaret Bowman's visit to Oxford.
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