Autograph Letter Signed

("C.L. Dodgson"), in purple ink on bifold leaf, 4 pages, 3 1/2" x 5 1/2", Christ Church, Oxford, November 2, 1890. Fine fresh example. To Elizabeth Wordsworth**: Carroll apologizes for having caused her to explain in some detail "Your Rules". He then goes on at great length to try and arrange for his nice Edith Alice Dodgson to attend a concert of The Oxford Musical Union on November 11th*. *Dodgson was not feeling well, suffering from "ague, cystitis and lumbago (back pain). See "Diaries" entries for October 31 & December 6, 1890. **Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932), was the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth. Founder in 1878 of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford as a college for female undergraduates. In 1886 she also founded St. Hugh's College as a college for poor female undergraduates. She was a prolific author, writing poetry, plays, biographies and religious articles. She was the most important leader of women's education in the nineteenth century and a legend in her own time. Not in Cohen: The Letters of Lewis Carroll.