Hiawatha's Supplementing

Matthew Demakos

The Carrollian - Issue 11 (Spring 2003), pages 31-35

This supplement to the article 'Hiawatha's Annotating' (The Carrollian: Issue 10, Autumn 2002). includes four new annotations and a number of corrections to the text of the poem.
 
The first annotation explains how Carroll may have edited the line 'Mystic, wondrous was the process' to avoid an awkward nod to Tennyson's 'Morte D' Arthur' (1842), later a part of Idylls of the King.
 
The second cites all of Carroll's exposure times (found in his letters and diaries) and relates them to the first article's claim.
 
The third discusses Carroll's possible allusion to the Iroquois nation in the line 'Tumbled all the tribe together' while explaining Longfellow's error in naming his Indian Hiawatha instead of Manabozho.
 
Citing Carroll's own experiences from glass negative to paper positive (the shortest being three days), the fourth annotation discusses whether or not the family in the poem scrutinized a positive print or ignored one of Edward L. Wilson's strictures and unscrupulously analyzed a glass negative. 
 
See the following related pieces:
 
'Hiawatha's Annotating',  The Carrollian - Issue 10 (Autumn 2002), pages 10-56.
 
'Hiawatha's Supplementing - II',  The Carrollian - Issue 12 (Autumn 2003), page 59.