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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov 26, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A letter written by Lewis Carroll to a friend in 1890 recently surfaced on eBay and was later found to be missing from Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
The hand-written letter was addressed to Carroll's friend, Winnie MacDonald, from his summer home in England. After the item was discovered on eBay, a source contacted Yale and police began to look into how the letter went from Yale to eBay, the Hartford Courant reported.
"Tracing it back all the hands it has gone through since it left Yale -- that's going to be the difficult part," said Lt. Mike Patten, a spokesman for the Yale University Police Department.
The collector who had been selling the letter returned it to Yale upon learning of its real owner, the Courant reported.
Lewis is best known as the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass."
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