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d de e knight letter d de e The Lewis Carroll Society of North America !!!!! !!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! !!!!! Fall 2018 Volume III Issue 1 Number 101 d de e The Knight Letter is the official magazine of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, a literary society whose purpose is to encourage study and appreciation of the life, work, times, and influence of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), and which is in affiliation with the Fales Library, New York University. It is published twice a year and is distributed free to all members. Editorial correspondence should be sent to the Editor in Chief at [email protected]. submissions Submissions for The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions and suggestions for Serendipidity and Sic, Sic, Sic should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions and suggestions for All Must Have Prizes should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions and suggestions for From Our Far-Flung Correspondents should be sent to [email protected]. © 2018 The Lewis Carroll Society of North America ISSN 0193-886X Chris Morgan, Editor in Chief Cindy Watter, Editor, Of Books and Things Mark Burstein, Editor, From Our Far-Flung Correspondents Foxxe Editorial Services, Copyeditor Mark Burstein, Production Editor Sarah Adams-Kiddy, Proofreader Andrew H. Ogus, Designer the lewis carroll society of north america President: Linda Cassady, [email protected] Vice-President: Amy Plummer, [email protected] Secretary: Sandra Lee Parker, [email protected] www.LewisCarroll.org Annual membership dues are U.S. $35 (regular), $50 (international), and $100 (sustaining). Subscriptions, correspondence, and inquiries should be addressed to: Sandra Lee Parker, LCSNA Secretary PO Box 197 Annandale, Virginia 22003 Additional contributors to this issue: Mary DeYoung, August Imholtz, Jr., and Devra Kunin On the cover: Fantasia on 42 (unpublished notebook drawing) by John Vernon Lord. See p. 61. Note also the number of dingbats. d de e d de e CONTENTS d de e The Rectory Umbrella The Mad Gardener’s Song in Classical Greek 52 g colin leach A Monster Mash at the Morgan 1 chris morgan Alchemy and the Albatross 53 adriana peliano Once I Was a Real Turtle, Part II 10 matt demakos Carrollian Notes g Disney’s 1951 Alice in Wonderland A Russian Humpty Dumpty 54 Reassessed 21 victor fet daniel rover singer “The Time Has Come, the Walrus Said, Martin on Martin, or to Talk of Many Things” 55 Annotating The Annotated 30 byron sewell molly martin Well Done, Wheeldon! 57 Alice in Japan 33 yoshiyuki momma Of Books and Things g Looking-Glass, ill. Maggie Taylor 58 mischmasch andrew ogus g Leaves from the Deanery Garden— Serendipity 35 The Snark, ill. Byron Sewell, ill. Chris Riddell 58 Ravings from the Writing Desk 39 andrew ogus stephanie lovett Alice in Moonland 59 All Must Have Prizes 40 rose owens matt crandall Oh, Lord 61 Arcane Illustrators: Max Ernst 44 Wonderland Catalog (ACMI) 61 mark burstein rose owens In Memoriam: Doug Howick 46 Evertype 62 mahendra singh From Our Far-flung Correspondents In Memoriam: Charles Blackman 47 g mark burstein Art & Illustration—Articles & Academia—Books— Reflections on Events, Exhibits, & Places—Internet & Technology— Jonathan Miller’s On Reflection 48 & christopher tyler Movies Television—Music—Performing Arts— Things 63 Alice in Plunderland 51 mark burstein The Funny Pages 67 d de e d de e d de e onsters roam our pages herein as we their first exposure to Carroll’s universe—albeit fil- cover the fall 2018 LCSNA meeting at tered through the Disney lens. Surprisingly, it lost Mthe Morgan Library in New York. The money on first release, but eventually became profit- library’s main exhibit, “Medieval Monsters: Terrors, able in the age of videocassettes and DVDs. In “All Aliens, Wonders,” featured illuminated manuscripts, Must Have Prizes,” Matt Crandall discusses the many statues, and miscellaneous objects with a monstrous recordings of music from the Disney movie. Interest- theme, all from the library’s world-class collection. ingly, the first Alice records appeared in 1944, and One statue stopped us in our tracks: that of the third- were not Disney recordings. Ginger Rogers, hoping century Saint Firmin holding his own head. A ceph- to star in a live-action/animation adaptation of Al- alophore (Greek for “head-carrier”), he was one of ice for Disney, recorded an early collection of songs many saints who suffered martyrdom by decapitation. on the Decca label. Heady stuff! In this issue, we return to a happy tradition: more More to the Carrollian point, the library created annotations for Alice. Martin Gardner wrote the first a special exhibit of monsters and other highlights edition of The Annotated Alice in 1960, and it has been from their Carroll collection, just for us. A Through the revised many times, most recently with The Annotated Looking-Glass first edition, interleaved with proofs for Alice 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, expanded and the illustrations, was complete with Tenniel’s notes, updated by Mark Burstein. In this issue, Molly Martin including a list of corrections to be made to the Jab- adds new information to the seemingly never-ending berwock—Carroll’s most famous monster. Speaking world of facts about the Alice books. of Tenniel, Matt Demakos concludes his two-part ar- Lastly, we salute Stephanie Lovett as she com- ticle on Tenniel’s post-production drawings and trac- pletes her term as LCSNA president, and welcome ings, examining why Tenniel created a set of twenty Linda Cassady aboard our Snark ship. Stephanie has post-production drawings, how they were sold and done great work for the Society, not the least of which resold, and the identity of the first collectors who was spearheading the movement to update our Con- owned them. stitution. We extend the fondest tip of our Hatter’s We also have a mini-Disney theme. Daniel Rover hat to her! Singer takes a fresh look at Disney’s 1951 feature- length cartoon, Alice in Wonderland. For many, it was chris morgan d de e the rectory umbrella d e A Monster Mash at the Morgan chris morgan ur monster mash was a non–graveyard smash self. The interpreters did a wonderful job of finding in New York this fall, as visiting Carrollians ways to sign the puns in the story. Owere surrounded by scary customers at the On behalf of the LCSNA, Ellie thanked the Morgan Library. Their Medieval Monsters exhibition school’s librarian, Elliot Andreopoulos, for helping was on view, featuring illuminated manuscripts and to set up the Reading. The LCSNA has now given out other monstrous objects. There was also a display of free books to grateful children twice a year for the rare Carrollian material in the Reading Room, ar- past 21 years, more than 2,000 in total. (Could this ranged especially for our meeting, featuring some have been the 42nd Reading?) notable Carrollian monsters. On Saturday morning, we gathered at the sump- The meeting began on Friday, September 21, with tuous Morgan Library & Museum. Attendees received the first official (that is, under the new name) Maxine a beautiful keepsake from Clare and August Im- and David Schaefer Memorial Reading at PS 347: The holtz—“The Mad Gardener’s Song” from Sylvie and American Sign Language and English Lower School Bruno, printed by the Crooked Crow Press. August, in Lower Manhattan. In attendance were about 20 speaking formally in Latin, then presented outgoing LCSNA members; 55 children from the third, fourth, LCSNA president Stephanie Lovett with an elegant and fifth grades of the school; and a variety of teach- drawing of “Queen Stephanie” by Jonathan Dixon, as ers, staff, interpreters, and volunteers. a token of our appreciation for her tireless efforts on The students who attend this school are either behalf of the Society over the past four years. deaf or are hearing children of parents who are deaf, Stephanie got us in a monster mood with her ex- and some of the teachers and volunteers are deaf as tensive disquisition on the topic, noting that monsters well. After discussing the history of the Reading and are really distorted versions of something we know. the LCSNA, Ellie Schaefer-Salins began performing Illustrations in the Alice books by Tenniel, Rackham, the “Mad Tea-Party” chapter as narrator, with Griffin and many others often distort the faces and bodies Miller as Alice and the Dormouse, April Lynn James of characters; grownups in particular are caricatured. (aka Madison Hatta) as the Mad Hatter, and Stepha- This can evoke the Self we fear and repress—and hide nie Lovett as the March Hare. Since Ellie is fluent in from others and ourselves—or perhaps the fabulous American Sign Language (ASL), she signed for her- Self we haven’t claimed. 1 illustrated in the library’s exhibit by a section on the Fallen Woman/Femme Fatale, which showed sirens, Eve, and the like. We might compare Alice to Lyra in Philip Pull- man’s His Dark Materials stories. The Fall is good, and Photo by Chris Morgan necessary to be human. Alice might also be another kind of character, a woman in whom humanity has gone very right instead of very wrong. In Carroll we can sometimes see girls as representing unfallen human beings, but there is also the sense that Alice is a mature and knowing person, exactly what people ought to be. Maybe there’s something for us Carrol- lians in contemplating Lyra’s path—that you don’t fall out of your ideal self, but into it. August presents Stephanie with the drawing. Monsters can also be border-crossers, transgres- sors, truth-tellers, and tricksters.

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