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In a congregation to be holden ...
AUTHOR/CREATOR
"Junius, F., Vice-Can."
CREATED/PUBLISHED
November 3, 1860
NOTES
Privately printed circular, issued to Oxford University Common Rooms. A line-by-line travesty of the Latin inscription upon a tunny-fish presented to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History by Henry Wentworth Acland (from the Christ Church Anatomical Museum). It was suggested by William Tuckwell in his Reminiscences of Oxford (1900), p. 160, that "the skit was rough-hewn by Lewis Carroll, handed round the Common Room, retouched by [Osborne] Gordon and [John Ernest] Bode and the rest." He reproduced it in facsimile as Appendix L, p. 272. However, the authorship is in some doubt. Dodgson, with the assistance of Reginald Southey, photographed the tunny-fish (see previous page of the Scrapbook). Francis Jeune (1806-1868) was Vice-Chancellor of the University at this time. "Congregation" is a meeting of all resident Master of Arts within the University on the academic or administrative staff, and, as such, forms the parliament of the University.
SUBJECT
Circular letters
MEDIUM
Circular
LANGUAGE
English
PART OF
Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress, page 21
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
DIGITAL ID
lchtml 002101
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lchtml.002101
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