BIB_ID
80938
Accession number
MA 4563
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Guildford, 1878 June 27.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1971.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15 x 9.6 cm
Notes
At the top of the letter, Dodgson has written the following: "address 'Ch. Ch. / Oxford.'" "Ch. Ch." was Carroll's characteristic abbreviation for Christ Church. In The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Cohen notes that this letter was written from The Chestnuts, Guildford. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Written in purple ink.
The letter is signed C. L. Dodgson. 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.
Written in purple ink.
The letter is signed C. L. Dodgson. 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
Formerly in the Reginald Allen Collection.
Summary
Telling Taylor that the child-actress Lizzie Coote will be appearing as Oliver Twist at the Olympic on July 8: "I very much hope you will be able to go & see it, if not the first night, at any rate soon -- It is the first serious part she has taken, & would I should think give you good materials for judging whether she has, or has not, a real talent for acting. If you do manage to go, I shall be very much interested to hear what you think of her"; thanking him for a letter recommending the play Such is the Law and the child-actress in it, Katie Brown; asking whether Taylor knows Brown and her family personally, and whether they are "'nice people' (to use a vague but very useful phrase)"; drawing Taylor's attention to Lizzie Coote's sister, Carrie (Caroline Eva, later Lady Pearce): "Carrie Coote (aged 8) is acting in 'Proof' at the Adelphi. She is a clever little thing: & if you ever thought of writing a piece to introduce the elder sister, you might do worse than introduce both."
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