World War One Carroll (1 results)

written largely in black ink with some use of red, including to the ruled borders, portraits and other illustrations clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted in, these with borders and captions supplied in manuscript, decorations and drawings to the text, most with some use of watercolour, including (as frontispiece) 'Flags of the Allies', the paper a little browned, pp. [55, a few blanks], small 4to, in a padded cloth 'Autographs' album, sometime rebacked, the original panels a little worn, some clippings laid in, the rear pastedown with a later 'Message for To-Day, 1944', good. An attractively kept album, which, despite the designated purpose ('Autographs'), has been used as a commonplace book for War poetry of the sort of patriotic strain that abounded in the early years of the conflict (Kipling has numerous entries). It is principally of interest for a Lewis Carroll parody, 'The Walrus & the Carpenter, Up-to-date', which, unlike a lot of its companions here, is otherwise hard to trace: signed 'M.B.H.', its protagonists have become 'The Crown Prince and the Emperor'; we have only found it in contemporary newspapers, including in Australia, but it does not seem to have ever been collected or have had a life beyond its original outing. …