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Easter Greeting

17 Oct 2014 1 1899
Easter Greeting by Lewis Carroll printed by James Parker & Co. (Oxford, 1876) for C. L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) privately on cream laid fine paper, watermarked by E. Towgood. Tipped in at front end paper of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark , 1st edition and 1st printing, Macmillan & Co. (London, 1876). · The Hunting of the Snark is not a nonsense poem, it's a tragedy: www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/english-literature-history-childrens-books-illustrations-l14404/lot.646.html : "[...] Here Carroll makes himself explicit by illustrating his ideas with a small original drawing within the letter. The letter also carries three notes in pencil (initialled HH) in which Holiday provides comments in answer to Carroll’s criticism, "I did not adopt this criticism on the drawing" and "L.C. has forgotten that ‘the Snark’ is a tragedy…", for example (4 pages, 8vo, The Chestnuts, Guildford, 4 January 1876, tipped-in). [...]" Perhaps during writing the poem, Carroll became afraid of his own work and tried to prepare his readers for the tragedy by inserting the Easter Greeting into the first edition of the book.