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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Collection of autograph letters between Arthur A. Houghton, Edgar H. Wells, and Alfred F. Goldsmith regarding Lewis Carroll publications 1932-1933.

Accession number
PML 352910.1-5
Credit line
Acquired for the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection before 2010.
Description
5 items ; various sizes
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Summary
Collection consists of: autograph letter from Edgar H. Wells & Co., New York, to Arthur A. Houghton, dated 19.v.32, stating that Ernest Maggs and he have items for him to look at for his Alice collection the next time he is back in New York (PML 352910.1); autograph postcard from Edgar H. Wells & Co., New York, to Alfred F. Goldsmith, New York, dated 26 October 1932, asking if he can find the first printing of The Lewis Carroll Book published by Dial Press, includes an illustrated response from Alfred F. Goldsmith of a full-length man holding a sign "Alas! No- A.F.G." (PML 352910.2); autograph card from Alfred F. Goldsmith, New York, to Edgar H. Wells, dated 24 April 1933, thanking him for the pamphlet and expressing that he noticed Alice has reached an African market with illustrations of the head and shoulders of 2 African men (PML 352910.3); autograph card in pencil from Alfred F. Goldsmith to unknown recipient, undated, asking where the location of an "Alice" is that was supposed to be sent that Friday with an illustration of a full-length man smoking a pipe in a hat with a cane (PML 352910.4); autograph advertisement from Alfred F. Goldsmith advertising Lewis Carroll's Rhyme & Reason, First American edition, 1884 for $4.50 with an illustration of a full-length man looking at the sign enclosing the publication information (PML 352910.5).
Classification
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