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Creator
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Dodgson
Physical description
167 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Charles Dodgson was an English novelist, essayist, writer of children's literature, and mathematician. He wrote literary works under the pen name Lewis Carroll.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include poems, stories, and mathematical studies. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence by the author, dating from 1864 to 1897, to Florence Balfour Foster, Alice Liddell Hargreaves, Beatrice Hatch, Edith Morley, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1870 to 1932, between various correspondents including George Lillie Craik, Florence Balfour Foster, John Galsworthy, Alice Liddell Hargreaves, W. T. Spencer, and others. There are letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and from Christina Rossetti to Dodgson, dating from 1864 and 1865. The pictorial works consist primarily of illustrations by Harry Furniss, E. W. Kemble, and Sir John Tenniel for publication of the author's works, including "Sylvie and Bruno," "Alice in Wonderland," and "Through the Looking-Glass."

The Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the collection was previously owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Previous owners also include Frank Fletcher and Sir Edward Howard Marsh.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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