Henry Kingsley and Charles Dodgson

Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and the novelist Henry Kingsley enjoyed what appears to have been a warm friendship, but the one “fact” that all Carrollians think they know about Henry Kingsley—the anecdote related by Collingwood in The Life and Letter of Lewis Carroll purporting that Kingsley encouraged the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland— is probably not true, as there is no evidence to support it. Dodgson met Kingsley in 1864 on the Isle of Wight, and later presented him with inscribed copies of Alice, the French and German translations, Phantasmagoria, and most likely, Through the Looking Glass. Kingsley wrote to Dodgson and to Dodgson’s publisher (and his own personal friend), Alexander Macmillan, with generous praise of Dodgson’s books. Most of what we know about the Kingsley-Dodgson friendship comes from these letters and from two Dodgson diary entries. Further, it seems that Dodgson loaned Kingsley £100 when the latter’s literary and personal fortunes were in decline in the early 1870s. The debt was partially repaid, probably from Kingsley’s small estate, after his death from cancer of the trachea and tongue at age 46 in 1876

Duplication of Serial Set publications in the American State Papers: an annotated inventory

Includes bibliographical references (page 22).Article and Appendixes: Foreign Relations, Indian Affairs, Commerce & Navigation, Post Office, and Miscellaneous tables.The American State Papers collection of Congressional and Executive Branch publications, which in total number more than 6,300 documents, not only covers the fourteen Congresses before the initiation of the Congressional Serial Set in Dec. 1817 but for the final three-fifths of the collection overlaps chronologically with the first two decades of the Serial Set. Over 2,650 of the American State Papers publications reprint, with some occasional minor alterations and a few major ones, Reports and Documents originally published in the Serial Set. This paper provides for the first time an annotated list of all those duplicated publications

Phantasmagorial Notes and a Grammar of Ghosts

In 1868, Lewis Carroll published a long poem about ghosts under the title "Phantasmagoria," which was also the title of the book in which his 755-line poem appeared. He revised the poem and included it in his book Rhyme? and Reason? published in 1883. This article traces the meaning of the word "phantasmagoria" back to the very late 18th-century Belgian illusionist and magic-lantern impresario, Etienne-Gaspard Robertson, explains how Carroll’s "Phantasmagoria" differs from Robertson’s Phantasmagorie and what it might tell us about Carroll’s belief in spirits, provides a grammar or explanation of the many kinds of ghosts who figure in Carroll’s poem (including kobold, banshee, kelpie, spectre, and many others), and finally lists the major textual differences [for example, lines and stanzas deleted, added, or changed] between the 1868 and 1883 versions of the poem

Henry Kingsley and Charles Dodgson

Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and the novelist Henry Kingsley enjoyed what appears to have been a warm friendship, but the one “fact” that all Carrollians think they know about Henry Kingsley—the anecdote related by Collingwood in The Life and Letter of Lewis Carroll purporting that Kingsley encouraged the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland— is probably not true, as there is no evidence to support it. Dodgson met Kingsley in 1864 on the Isle of Wight, and later presented him with inscribed copies of Alice, the French and German translations, Phantasmagoria, and most likely, Through the Looking Glass. Kingsley wrote to Dodgson and to Dodgson’s publisher (and his own personal friend), Alexander Macmillan, with generous praise of Dodgson’s books. Most of what we know about the Kingsley-Dodgson friendship comes from these letters and from two Dodgson diary entries. Further, it seems that Dodgson loaned Kingsley £100 when the latter’s literary and personal fortunes were in decline in the early 1870s. The debt was partially repaid, probably from Kingsley’s small estate, after his death from cancer of the trachea and tongue at age 46 in 1876