BIB_ID
81919
Accession number
MA 2878.72
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1887 August 25.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28.8 x 22.9 cm
Notes
On August 25, 1887, Carroll sent Furniss this page and another page containing stanzas from the poem "The Gardener's Song" (MA 2878.71). See Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators: Collaborations & Correspondence, 1865-1898, edited by Morten Cohen & Edward Wakeling (New York: Cornell University Press, 2003), pages 140-141.
This manuscript and the manuscript of "The Gardener's Song" were part of a collection of letters from Carroll to Furniss acquired by the Morgan in 1971. The collection has been cataloged as MA 2878.1-72. The two poems are housed separately from the letters.
Title from first line of poem.
Written above the verses: "for Artist's use / verses to come before, after, & in middle of, Pig-Tale / (the order of verses is not settled.)"
Written in purple ink.
Carroll has written mathematical notes or calculations on the verso, and crossed them out.
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.
This manuscript and the manuscript of "The Gardener's Song" were part of a collection of letters from Carroll to Furniss acquired by the Morgan in 1971. The collection has been cataloged as MA 2878.1-72. The two poems are housed separately from the letters.
Title from first line of poem.
Written above the verses: "for Artist's use / verses to come before, after, & in middle of, Pig-Tale / (the order of verses is not settled.)"
Written in purple ink.
Carroll has written mathematical notes or calculations on the verso, and crossed them out.
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
Purchased by John Hay Whitney at the Lois C. Levison sale (American Art Association, New York, 12-13 May 1930); gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Summary
Consisting of eleven stanzas of the poem "Little birds are dining."
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