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1. Address by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson (Louis [sic]
Carroll ) at S. Mary Magdalen Church (3 p.m.
The Children’s Service) on Harvest Thanksgiving
Day.
In the Parish Magazine of S. Mary Magdalen,
St. Leonards-on-Sea [Nov. 1897].
Pages [1–2]. 24 cm., bound 24.5 cm.
The [October 1897] issue, under the headings
“Harvest Thanksgiving Services” and “For
Children,” includes announcements of the address,
scheduled for October 3rd, p. [1]; and
the issue of [March 1898] includes “ ‘Lewis
Carroll,’ ” a paragraph on his death, signed E.
B[eales?]., p. [2].
C. L. Dodgson
nos. 1–2
the Parish Magazine of S. Mary Magdalen, St. Leonards-on-Sea, which contains in the
November 1897 issue an Address for children by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. Among other
early additions to the collection were three circular letters addressed to Mrs. Villiers
Blakemore and signed by Carroll.
The Library has added over the years some three hundred printed items to the collection.
The additions have included thirteen presentation copies, including an 1865
Alice, the gift of William H. Scheide ; editions and translations, many of the latter the
gifts of Warren Weaver; biographical, bibliographical, and critical works; twenty-seven
photographs by Carroll; and five books from the libraries of members of the Dodgson
family.
The Library has also added to the collection some sixty letters written by Carroll,
as well as fourteen letters to him from William Holman Hunt, John Ruskin, and others;
the manuscript of an acrostic addressed to Alice Crompton; and “Story of the three
sisters,” eight pen-and-ink sketches on one side of a sheet, drawn by Carroll for May
Mileham while on a train trip. Included among other additions are six pencil sketches
by Henry Holiday and five proofs for illustrations for The Hunting of the Snark (1876);
six pen-and-ink drawings by Harry Furniss for Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893); a penand-ink
drawing by F. Carruthers Gould for Hector H. Munro’s The Westminster Alice
(1902); a pen-and-ink caricature of Dodgson by Burr Shafer for The Saturday Review of
Literature (1948); and a preparatory sketch in pencil by Carlo Pellegrini (“Ape”) for a
caricature of Dean Liddell published in Vanity Fair (1875). Also acquired were the manuscript
libretto of “Alice in Wonderland,” performed in the Shepard Memorial Church,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 15, 1898, signed by the cast and management,
mainly students or graduates of Harvard, M.I.T., Radcliffe, and Wellesley; the autograph
manuscript of Derek Hudson’s biography of Lewis Carroll (1954); and the first
draft of Hudson’s British Council pamphlet on Carroll (1958).
The monthly issues from January 1897 through
April 1898 bound in one volume, without title
page. Deep red horizontal straight-grain morocco.
Sprinkled edges, reddish orange.
2. … Address by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson (Lewis
Carroll ) at S. Mary Magdalen Church, St. Leonards-on-Sea
(3 p.m., the Children’s Service ), on
Harvest Thanksgiving Day, October 3rd, 1897.
[1932.]
[4] p. 22.5 cm.
At head of title: Lewis Carroll Centenary,
1932.
At top left corner of p. [1]: From the Rev. P.