CARROLL, Lewis (Charles L. Dodgson)
Two-page Autograph Letter Signed ("C.L. Dodgson") to Henry Holiday regarding Holiday's illustrations for The Hunting of the Snark
Octavo. Dated 15 July 1883 from Christ Church. About fine. In characteristic purple ink, Dodgson responds to Holiday's query about advertisement for a new Lewis Carroll book with Holiday illustrations, about which Holiday is unaware: "My dear Holiday, Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea as that a newspaper can err!" He goes on to posit "A third hypothesis, which does not seem to have occurred to you. 'Rhyme and Reason?' is (nearly all of it) a 'rechauffee.' It will embody most of the comic pieces in 'Phantasmagoria,' as well as 'The Hunting of the Snark.'" Accompanied by a letter from Holiday's daughter dated in 1927 further explaining the circumstances behind the letter. Also accompanied by a 1979 invoice from a bookseller. Published in Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators: Collaborations & Correspondence, 1865-1898.
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