LIBRARIAN AT WIDENER EDITS CARROLL WORKS

The Harcourt Amory Collection of the works of Lewis Carroll in the Harvard College Library, compiled by Flora V. Livingstone, librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room, will be published this week.

The greater part of the books of Lewis Carroll in the College Library were donated by Mrs. Harcourt Amory after her husband's death in 1926, as a memorial to him. It is one of the best collections in existence and contains two copies of the 1865 edition of "Alice in Wonderland"; the earliest letters written by Lewis Carroll while at school; two of the magazines published at Rugby; and many other rare books and papers.

Amory Collected Works

Harcourt Amory was a diligent collector of the works of Charles L. Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Lewis Carroll", and in addition to his collection of Dodgson's books, constructed a toy theater, in which he used miniatures of the characters in "Alice in Wonderland". Armory cared little for the pamphlets on mathematics and logic, which the versatile Dodgson published, and was, for the most part, concerned with the changing types of illustrations used in the various editions of "Alice".