DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE ("Lewis Carroll"). Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson") to "Dear Mrs. Cooke" (mistress at a girl's school in Eastbourne where Dodgson had given lectures on his The Game of Logic), Christ Church, Oxford, 4 March 1887, 3 pages, 12mo, in purple ink, traces of mounting on blank fourth page: "...if I had really thought you 'neglectful of your duty,' or even that you owed me any 'duty' whatsoever, it would have seemed to me bad taste to mention it to any of your pupils -- I was merely jesting -- But perhaps you also were jesting...There really ought to be some mode of marking what one writes, which may mean 'this is meant merely in fun'...I am writing this at Ch. Ch. [Christ Church], to take with me to London tomorrow, whence I hope to send copies of The Game of Logic, to be given to the four you tell me are still in Eastbourne [the names of the four girls follow]..."; Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson") to Mrs. Benjamin Dyer (owner of a house in Eastbourne where Dodgson would summer), Christ Church, Oxford, 29 June 1882, 1 page, oblong 8vo, in purple ink, traces of mounting on verso, making arrangements for a stay: "I do not expect to be able to come on the 3d -- so do not get in any food till I write to fix my day. Please keep the notice (of rooms to let) up till you hear from me...Of course I shall pay for the lodgings for all the days, beginning from July 3, that they remain empty..." Neither letter is in Letters, ed. M.N. Cohen and R.L. Green, and each is presumably unpublished; the first is mentioned in a footnote in vol. 2, p. 641. (2)

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DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE ("Lewis Carroll"). Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson") to "Dear Mrs. Cooke" (mistress at a girl's school in Eastbourne where Dodgson had given lectures on his The Game of Logic), Christ Church, Oxford, 4 March 1887, 3 pages, 12mo, in purple ink, traces of mounting on blank fourth page: "...if I had really thought you 'neglectful of your duty,' or even that you owed me any 'duty' whatsoever, it would have seemed to me bad taste to mention it to any of your pupils -- I was merely jesting -- But perhaps you also were jesting...There really ought to be some mode of marking what one writes, which may mean 'this is meant merely in fun'...I am writing this at Ch. Ch. [Christ Church], to take with me to London tomorrow, whence I hope to send copies of The Game of Logic, to be given to the four you tell me are still in Eastbourne [the names of the four girls follow]..."; Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Dodgson") to Mrs. Benjamin Dyer (owner of a house in Eastbourne where Dodgson would summer), Christ Church, Oxford, 29 June 1882, 1 page, oblong 8vo, in purple ink, traces of mounting on verso, making arrangements for a stay: "I do not expect to be able to come on the 3d -- so do not get in any food till I write to fix my day. Please keep the notice (of rooms to let) up till you hear from me...Of course I shall pay for the lodgings for all the days, beginning from July 3, that they remain empty..." Neither letter is in Letters, ed. M.N. Cohen and R.L. Green, and each is presumably unpublished; the first is mentioned in a footnote in vol. 2, p. 641. (2)