Writer better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, best known for the classic Alice in Wonderland. ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7.25, May 22, 1881. Very detailed letter concerning a timetable for a visit and a trip to the theatre for Dodgson and a lady friend. In part, “Miss Terry says we could call, for a very short time, at 10 1/2 a. m. on Friday, but she would prefer 4 or 5 that afternoon. I am writing to ask her if Thursday afternoon would do equally well…We need not settle now what to do afterwards, til dinner. Mr. Onions is quite resigned to your joining us at dinner. It will be very comfortable to be able to go across on foot to the theatre & much better to return the same way & start from the hotel for Harley Street than to try to get a cab to the theatre door. So I suggest that when I fetch you to dinner, you shall come in ordinary walking dress & bring in a bag or bundle whatever finery you need for the stalls. You shall have the use of a room, in which to titivate before dinner & you can leave your walking things there & cross to the theatre with merely a shawl over your head, which would save the bother of rescuing your property afterwards from the cloak-room. If we go for the first piece, (which I want to do unless Miss Terry decidedly says it is not worth seeing - a most unlikely verdict, but I have asked her the question)…Now please tell me, by return of post, if you are ready to do whatever you are told, & I will then write & send you a definite plan - What a lot of writing it takes to settle anything by letter.” Horizontal mailing folds, a couple creases and mounting remnants to edge of final page, otherwise fine condition. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
