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CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON [LEWIS CARROLL], (1832-1898), AUTHOR AND MATHEMATICIAN: LETTERS TO MISS DORA ABDY OF GUILDFORD, 1895

Reference Number: Zg/73

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Photocopies presented by the Headmistress of Guildford High School for Girls in May 1994. -
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Related records
For other records of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Dodgson family of Guildford, see DFC, G103, LC, Zg/100 and 6968. Diaries, 1855-1897, are held at the British Library, ref BL Add MSS 54340-54348. -
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Photocopy (1994) of a letter from the Rev C L Dodgson, Ch[rist] Ch[ur...
Title	Photocopy (1994) of a letter from the Rev C L Dodgson, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], [Oxford] to Miss Dora Abdy, regarding a dinner arrangement for 'Saturday the 25th'. He also explains the role of the lady in the 'card game of Whist for Two usually called Correspondence'. 1p
Reference	Zg/73/1
Unit Date	15 May 1895
Start Date	18950515
End Date	18950515

Photocopy (1994) of a letter from the Rev C L Dodgson, Ch[rist] Ch[ur...
Title	Photocopy (1994) of a letter from the Rev C L Dodgson, Ch[rist] Ch[urch], Oxford to 'My dear Dora' describing human virtues and his 'readiness to adopt suggestions (when they happen to coincide with my own inclinations)' as one of his most marked virtues '...so prominent, in fact, that my biographer will fail to do justice to it, unless he devotes a whole chapter to the subject'. Dodgson also asks Dora whether she would meet him in London for the day. The letter is signed 'Yours affectionately, C L Dodgson'. 2pp
Reference	Zg/73/2
Unit Date	16 Jun 1895
Start Date	18950616
End Date	18950616

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