Luther Harris Evans is the tenth Librarian of Congress (1945-53) and the third director-general of the UNESCO. He is the one that brought the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland to the British Museum.
Before the manuscript was presented to the British Museum, it had travelled to several places. Alice sold the manuscript gifted by Carroll in a public auction in 1928. The original manuscript of Alice was purchased by Dr A. S. W. Rosenbach, a US bookseller and collector. It later changed hands between the inventor Eldridge Johnson and Rosenbach. By the end of the Second World War, Lessing Rosenwald persuaded Rosenbach to return the manuscript to England, making it a gift of the American people in gratitude for the British people’s efforts in the Second World War. The manuscript was given to Luther Evans in 1946 and Evans presented the manuscript to the British Museum in 1948.
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