The Constant Curator 347 David J. Holmes

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1 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CHRONICLE VOLUME LXII

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3 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CHRONICLE VOLUME LXII NUMBER 3 SPRING 2001 CONTENTS PAGE The Constant Curator 347 David J. Holmes The Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists 361 Alexander D. Wainwright Seeing Mrs. Morris: Photographs of Jane Morris from the 376 Collection of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Debra N. Mancoff Seeing Photographs in Comfort: The Social Uses of Lewis 403 Carroll s Photograph Albums Diane Waggoner Philip Conklin Blackburn: An Underappreciated 434 Lewis Carroll Scholar Charlie Lovett Charlotte M. Yonge, Woman of Letters 451 Ellen Jordan

4 Anthony Trollope in America: A Brief Survey of His 479 Publishing History Walter E. Smith Wilkie Collins in the Parrish Collection 501 William Baker Anna Lefroy and Her Austen Family Letters 519 Deirdre Le Faye Library Notes 563 Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize Essay Jonathan M. Kennedy Dinah Craik s Library Catalog Margaret Sherry Rich Hester Piozzi on Her Critics Margaret Anne Doody Friends of the Library 574 Cover Note 579 Alexander D. Wainwright Index to Volume LXII 582

5 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Alexander D. Wainwright, ca Portrait of Thomas Hardy by Reginald Grenville Eves 349 Broadside addressed to students of the University of 354 Glasgow Drawing by William Makepeace Thackeray for Punch 357 The library at Dormy House, Morris L. Parrish at Dormy House 364 The first edition of Sir Walter Scott s Waverley 367 Group portrait of some Parrish authors 368 Watercolor presented to Morris Parrish on his 371 seventieth birthday Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mrs. William Morris 378 (The Blue Silk Dress), 1868 Seven photographs of Jane Morris by John Robert 379, Parsons, 1865 English satin day dress, Frederic Leighton, Mrs. James Guthrie, ca Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mrs. Morris Asleep, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Roseleaf, Emery Walker, photograph of Jane Morris (after 1900) 400 Lewis Carroll s Study at Christ Church, Oxford 402 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Mrs. George MacDonald and 406 Family with Charles Dodgson, 1863 Cover of Lewis Carroll s Photographic Scrap Book Vol. II 410

6 Julia Margaret Cameron, facing pages from Portraits and 413 Photographic Studies from Life, 1864 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Ethel and Lilian Brodie, Facing pages from the Grove Family Album Page from Reginald Southey, photograph album 5, 418 ca Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Archdeacon Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, The New Book, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, The Young Mathematician, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Anne Smith and Fanny 422 Smith, 1857 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Fanny Strong, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Mrs. Hughes and Children, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, John Everett Millais, Alice as depicted in the original manuscript of Alice s 430 Adventures under Ground Photograph of Alice Liddell on the last page of Alice s 431 Adventures under Ground Philip C. Blackburn and his family 436 Hand-lettered title page for the Parrish supplementary 439 catalog Morris Parrish s collection of Lewis Carroll at Dormy 442 House, 1933 Envelopes commemorating the seventieth anniversary of 446 the publication of Alice Philip C. Blackburn, Charlotte Mary Yonge at the height of her career 452 Letter from Charlotte Yonge to Anne Mercier 472 Charlotte Mary Yonge in later life 477 Anthony Trollope,

7 Anthony Trollope, The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson 484 Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right 491 John Everett Millais, Was It Not a Lie? Hablot K. Browne ( Phiz ), Dear Greenow! dear 494 husband! Trollope Works First Published in America 498 Wilkie Collins 502 Wilkie Collins to Dr. Francis Carr Beard, September 1889 Wilkie Collins, first page of autobiographical 514 memorandum, 1862 Playbill for The New Magdalen, Portrait of Wilkie Collins as a boy 517 Anna Lefroy 521 A Simplified Austen Family Pedigree Cassandra Leigh (Mrs. George) Austen 527 Mrs. George Austen to Anna Lefroy, 9 November Cassandra Elizabeth Austen 547 Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 569 Marginal notation by Hester Piozzi 572 Alexander D. Wainwright,

8 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE WILLIAM BAKER is Professor of English and Professor, University Libraries, at Northern Illinois University. With William Clarke, he edited The Letters of Wilkie Collins (1999). He is currently editing (with Paul Lewis, Andrew Gasson, and Graham Law) another four volumes of Collins s letters, to be published in 2005/6. His George Eliot: A Bibliographical History will be published in MARGARET ANNE DOODY teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where she is John and Barbara Glynn Professor of Literature and director of the new Ph.D. Program in Literature. Her interests include detective stories, of which she is a perpetrator; in spring of 2002 the second novel of her Aristotle series will appear. DAVID J. HOLMES has been a dealer in rare books and manuscripts since His firm is located in Hamilton, New York. ELLEN JORDAN is a conjoint senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Her main area of research is women s work in nineteenth-century Britain. She has, however, been a lifelong fan of the novels of Charlotte Yonge and is collaborating on a project to transcribe and annotate all known letters by this author. DEIDRE LE FAYE has published widely on Jane Austen and the Austen family. Among her publications are Jane Austen: A Family Record (1989), a completely new edition of Jane Austen s Letters (1995), and a biography of Austen for the British Library Writer s Lives series (1998). Forthcoming in 2002 are Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels and Jane Austen s Outlandish Cousin: The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide. CHARLIE LOVETT is the former president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and the director of publications for that organization. He is the series editor for The Complete Pamphlets of Lewis

9 Carroll (1994 ) and the author of several books on Lewis Carroll, including Alice on Stage (1990), Lewis Carroll s England (1998), and Lewis Carroll and the Press (1999). DEBRA N. MANCOFF is a Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written widely on Victorian art and culture, including Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty (2000) and Burne-Jones (1998). Her current project, Flora Symbolica: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Language of Flowers, will be published in MARGARET SHERRY RICH is Reference Librarian and Archivist in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Her previous contributions to the Chronicle include Telling Her Story: British Women of Letters of the Victorian Era (Autumn 1995) and Firestone at Fifty: History with a Human Face (Autumn 1998). WALTER E. SMITH is a bibliographer and collector of English literature of the Victorian period. He is the author of bibliographical catalogs of Joseph Conrad (1978), Charles Dickens (1982), and the Brontë sisters (1991). His descriptive bibliography of Anthony Trollope s American editions will be published early in DIANE WAGGONER is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Fellow in the Art Collections at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. She has a Ph.D in art history from Yale University and is currently writing a book on Lewis Carroll s photography.