CARROLL'S RARE BOOKS ARE GIVEN TO WIDENER

Widener Library has just received from the library of the late Harcourt Amory '76, of Boston, his notable collection of Lewis Carroll books, pamphlets, and letters, containing many original drawings by John Tenniel, it was announced last night. This is a gift in memory of Mr. Amory from his widow and children, Gertrude A. Hutchins, Harcourt Amory '16, and John Singleton Amory '23.

The collection includes pearly four hundred books and pamphlets together with many leaflets printed for Lewis Carroll's child friends, puzzles, original drawings, letters, and notes by the beloved author-mathematician, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Added to the material already in its possession, this gift makes the Harvard College collection of Lewis Carroll's works and memorabilia as fine as any in existence.

First Edition is Most Valuable

Especially interesting, and the most valuable item, is a copy, bound in vellum for presentation, of the first edition of "Alice in Wonderland, London, 1865." This edition was recalled by the author, and the publishers sold the sheets to D. Appleton & Company, New York, who issued the book with a new title-page dated 1866. For a long time the edition published in London in 1866 was considered the first. A copy of this edition in the collection has, as frontispiece, an unusual plate hand-colored by Tenniel, the artist.

There are many amusing items among the leaflets, mathematical games, puzzles. Easter greetings, charades, and acrostics, for Lewis Carroll was the inventor of the cross-word puzzle. There are also numerous books from Lewis Carroll's own library.