BIB_ID
81181
Accession number
MA 9258
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Oxford, 1880 May 30.
Credit line
Purchased with the Bentham collection, 1911.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 13.6 x 8.5 cm
Notes
On stationery with letterhead in purple Gothic type: "Rev. C.L. Dodgson, / Christ Church, / Oxford."
Acquired with and removed from Carroll's Tangled Tale (PML 7972). Knot II, "Mad Mathesis", is a mathematical problem about trains.
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.
Acquired with and removed from Carroll's Tangled Tale (PML 7972). Knot II, "Mad Mathesis", is a mathematical problem about trains.
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
George Bentham; Pierpont Morgan.
Summary
Enclosing the manuscript of "Knot II" from A Tangled Tale; saying that he hopes she won't think that he is "transgressing the unwritten law of novelists -- Most writers think themselves free to place their characters at any distance apart, but they limit the range of time allowed. Now, here, I seem to have wandered out of the 16th Century (say) into the 19th or 20th. But we'll get them linked together somehow, in Knots yet to come, I hope"; asking her to tell him if it is too long; saying that he would like the opportunity to correct the text in type: "May I ask the printer for a dozen proofs of it when I send the corrected slip? It will be the sort of thing I should like to enclose in letters to young-lady-friends."
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