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SIGHTING: Carroll's "Doublets" (aka "word golf" in PF)
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relevant to the game of "word golf" in PF. - SES]
Subject: spotted on abe books
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*CARROLL, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]*
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*Book Description: *Macmillan and Co.,, London:, 1879. FIRST EDITION, FIRST
ISSUE. 8vo. 39 pp. Original red publisher's cloth paneled in blind, gilt
title on upper cover, slight soiling. An excellent presentation copy
inscribed in purple ink, "Mrs. Neate from the Author." Preserved in a
modern burgundy cloth box with red morocco sides, gilt lettered. First
edition, first issue of this most popular word puzzle, invented by Carroll,
that became a parlor craze in its time. "The rules of the puzzle are simple
enough. Two words are proposed, of the same length; and the Puzzle consists
in linking these together by interposing other words, each of which shall
differ from the next word in one letter only." Beginning as a series of
single problems which appeared in Vanity Fair on March 29, 1879, these
games were collected by Macmillan and published here for the first time in
book form. There are thirteen puzzles dated between March 29 and June 21,
1879. The name "doublets" was adopted after a passage in Shakespeare's
Macbeth.Dodgson (1832-98), lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College
from 1855 to 1881, purportedly invented the game for Julia and Ethel
Margaret Arnold, two little girls who "found nothing to do." Sophia Neate
(1832-1908) of Heatherside, Woking, took on the care of Sally Sinclair and
her siblings, whom Dodgson liked very much, when their parents died. Neate
was supported financially by Dodgson and the actor Lionel Brough. On first
meeting Mrs. Neate on June 26, 1879, Dodgson wrote in his diary that he
‘found her so interesting that I stayed 4 hours!" He occasionally visited
her and noted the progress of the Sinclair children as they grew (see
Cohen, The letters of Lewis Carroll, 1979, p. 334n). Bookseller Inventory #
11022
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*CARROLL, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]*
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*Book Description: *Macmillan and Co.,, London:, 1879. FIRST EDITION, FIRST
ISSUE. 8vo. 39 pp. Original red publisher's cloth paneled in blind, gilt
title on upper cover, slight soiling. An excellent presentation copy
inscribed in purple ink, "Mrs. Neate from the Author." Preserved in a
modern burgundy cloth box with red morocco sides, gilt lettered. First
edition, first issue of this most popular word puzzle, invented by Carroll,
that became a parlor craze in its time. "The rules of the puzzle are simple
enough. Two words are proposed, of the same length; and the Puzzle consists
in linking these together by interposing other words, each of which shall
differ from the next word in one letter only." Beginning as a series of
single problems which appeared in Vanity Fair on March 29, 1879, these
games were collected by Macmillan and published here for the first time in
book form. There are thirteen puzzles dated between March 29 and June 21,
1879. The name "doublets" was adopted after a passage in Shakespeare's
Macbeth.Dodgson (1832-98), lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College
from 1855 to 1881, purportedly invented the game for Julia and Ethel
Margaret Arnold, two little girls who "found nothing to do." Sophia Neate
(1832-1908) of Heatherside, Woking, took on the care of Sally Sinclair and
her siblings, whom Dodgson liked very much, when their parents died. Neate
was supported financially by Dodgson and the actor Lionel Brough. On first
meeting Mrs. Neate on June 26, 1879, Dodgson wrote in his diary that he
‘found her so interesting that I stayed 4 hours!" He occasionally visited
her and noted the progress of the Sinclair children as they grew (see
Cohen, The letters of Lewis Carroll, 1979, p. 334n). Bookseller Inventory #
11022
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