An original unpublished manuscript by Harry Henry (1916-2008...

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An original unpublished manuscript by Harry Henry (1916-2008), titled 'Lewis Carroll and the Subconscious', dated October 1932, "Published by the Upton Press, Unlimited", and with m/s text opposite title page "This edition is strictly limited to one copy, signed and illustrated in pen & ink by the author", 8 page manuscript study + 3 full page m/s pen & ink illustrations, "Any student of the life and works of Lewis Carroll...cannot have failed to have been struck by a...presentiment - that hidden in his words is something of the esoteric, or, at least, of the subconscious. This may be purely unintentional on the author's part. He himself always emphatically disclaimed ever having written any serious or solemn meaning into his verse. Yet..when..discussing himself, he was quite untrustworthy, his love of fun overcoming his passion for truth...it is quite possible that while he did not intentionally put any great truths into his work, yet his subconscious may have had a vast effect in the shaping of his thoughts...Living as he did a solitary and somewhat morose existence, it is obvious he must have become in some degree introspective and self analytical. For example, he himself says * In 'Principles of Parliamentary Representation', p.35,II.28,29 "Very often it seems to me as though I am, and yet at the same time I am not, what I am; for, after all, what am I?"...His biographer, Edward Lloyd, a contemporary and a close friend of Dodgson, said of him: "Up to the age of 35 it seemed to his more observant friends and acquaintances that the hereditary madness of the Dodgson family was becoming manifest in him. Howbeit, after that age he became quite normal, only relapsing into the eccentric when engaged on some new work of fancy or imagination." This seems quite satisfactorily to bear out the general facts of the theory here put forward: namely, that until the writing of the Jabberwocky - immortal, certainly, but how full of subconscious meaning - his eccentricity could find no outlet save in peculiar and striking ways...Let us first take the Jabberwocky, from 'through the Looking-Glass.'...The third verse: "He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long time the manxome foe he sought
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought." is by far the most important. It is obvious *this view is supported by Paul Selver and James Joyce - two very great authorities on Carroll. *that the Jabberwock - 'the jaws that bite, the claws that catch' - represents the many and rampant forces of death, destruction and annihilation. This is amplified by the adjective 'manxome' - a portmanteau word combining manevolent, suicidal, and doom.+So the author says in a letter to Alice Liddell, dated June, 1872..." and so on, the manuscript signed H. Henry at page 8 at the conclusion of the words, and the following 3 pages of pen & ink illustrations each signed by him, small 4to, contemporary silk binding with manuscript pen & ink title written on front cover. Harry Henry (1916-2008) was seen by many as the father of the market research industry in Britain. A former director of the Thomson Organisation, he changed the face of newspaper publishing in Britain. He was an innovator in all aspects of marketing and the media, and there are few key industry research bodies on which he did not serve in a distinguished capacity. In 1965 he was responsible for the introduction to Britain of Yellow Pages directories, his single main achievement. During WW2 he was principal statistician of 21 Army Group in the invasion of Europe 1944-45 where he was the "father" of military statistical analysis, for which he does not get the credit he deserves. During this period he demonstrated the inverse proportion between military speed of advance and the increase in rate of V.D. He married into the literary and academic family, the Ansteys, of whom the best known was the late Victorian humourist. This interesting unpublished manuscript was written age 16 or 17 (1932).