BIB_ID
81920
Accession number
MA 2878.71
Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1887 August 25.
Credit line
Gift of John Hay Whitney, 1971.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28.8 x 23.0 cm
Notes
On August 25, 1887, Carroll sent Furniss this page and another page containing the text of the poem "Little birds are dining" (MA 2878.72). 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 "Little birds are dining" 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 transcribed from manuscript.
Written in purple ink.
Carroll includes a drawing for the Albatross stanza in his letter to Furniss of September 12, 1889 (MA 2878.40).
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 "Little birds are dining" 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 transcribed from manuscript.
Written in purple ink.
Carroll includes a drawing for the Albatross stanza in his letter to Furniss of September 12, 1889 (MA 2878.40).
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 the Banker's Clerk, Elephant, Albatross, Coach-and-Four, and Argument stanzas from the poem "The Gardener's Song."
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