Word: tenniel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Widener Library has just received from the library of the late Harcourt Amory '76, of Boston, his notable collection of Lewis Carroll books, pamphlets, and letters, containing many original drawings by John Tenniel, it was announced last night. This is a gift in memory of Mr. Amory from his widow and children, Gertrude A. Hutchins, Harcourt Amory '16, and John Singleton Amory...
...volumes without mention-most honorable mention-of the sketches and cartoons. These are the output of genius and catch in one page more of the spirit of the time than most writers can put into twenty of print. The books are illuminated by drawings from the pens of Tenniel, Swain, Partridge, Du Maurier and many others who have made both "Punch" and themselves famous. And it is in these cartoons that Mr. Punch betrays his prophetic vision; in the very opening of the third volume we find "Wilful Wilhelm", with the famous "Dropping the Pilot" cartoon in the background, reciting...