ABC #038: Eldridge Reeves Johnson, Morris Longstreth Parrish, A.B. Frost, & Charles Soulas - Through the Looking Glass: Lewis Carroll Connections

• Industrialist Eldridge Reeves Johnson used money from the millions he earned in developing the Victor Talking Machine Company and purchased the original copy of “Alice’s Adventures Underground,” lettered and drawn by the author himself.
• Bibliophile Morris Longstreth Parrish purchased as many of Carroll’s works as he could, all in the best possible condition, so that Parrish's name became synonymous with “mint condition.”
• Lithographer and artist Arthur Burdett Frost impressed Carroll enough that he supplied illustrations for one of his books of poetry.
• And in a tenuous but fun connection, I will tell you of a center city restauranteur Charles Soulas whose specialty was mock turtle soup.

 

Parrish and Frost are interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Johnson and Soulas at West Laurel Hill. It's going to get crowded in the rabbit hole as we all enter together.

 

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