MRS. ROSSETTI AND HER CHILDREN, DANTE GABRIEL, CHRISTINA, AND WILLIAM
LORINA, ALICE, AND EDITH LIDDELL
“INSTANCE OF HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING OF THE DATE 1867”
LEWIS CARROLL’S STUDY AT CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD
LORD SALISBURY AND HIS TWO SONS
FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM SIR JOHN TENNIEL TO LEWIS CARROLL, DATED JUNE 1, 1870
DR. LIDDELL
“RESPONSIONS”
DREAMLAND.
H. FURNISS
“BALBUS AND THE DRAGON”
MEDLEY OF TENNIEL’S ILLUSTRATIONS IN “ALICE”
FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM H. FURNISS TO LEWIS CARROLL, DATED AUGUST 23, 1886.
SYLVIE AND BRUNO
FACSIMILE OF PROGRAMME OF “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” PRODUCED AT THE ROYAL GLOBE THEATRE, DECEMBER 26, 1888.
“THE MAD TEA PARTY”
THE LATE DUKE OF ALBANY
THE DEAN OF CHRIST CHURCH
THE MECHANICAL “HUMPTY DUMPTY”
LEWIS CARROLL
THE CHESTNUTS, GUILDFORD
LEWIS CARROLL’S GRAVE
LORINA AND ALICE LIDDELL
ALICE LIDDELL
XIE KITCHIN
XIE KITCHIN AS A CHINAMAN
ALICE AND THE DORMOUSE
FACSIMILE OF A “LOOKING-GLASS” LETTER FROM LEWIS CARROLL TO MISS EDITH BALL
ARTHUR HUGHES AND HIS DAUGHTER AGNES
“WHAT I LOOK LIKE WHEN I’M LECTURING”
PREFACE
It is with no undue confidence that I have accepted the invitation of the brothers and sisters of Lewis Carroll to write this Memoir. I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi—the least omission may distort the whole picture.
To write the life of Lewis Carroll as it should be written would tax the powers of a man of far greater experience and insight than I have any pretension to possess, and even he would probably fail to represent adequately such a complex personality. At least I have done my best to justify their choice, and if in any way I have wronged my uncle’s memory, unintentionally, I trust that my readers will pardon me.
My task has been a delightful one. Intimately as I thought I knew Mr. Dodgson during his life, I seem since his death to have become still better acquainted with him. If this Memoir helps others of his admirers to a fuller knowledge of a man whom to know was to love, I shall not have written in vain.
I take this opportunity of thanking those who have so kindly assisted me in my work, and first I must mention my old schoolmaster, the Rev. Watson Hagger, M.A., to whom my readers are indebted for the portions of this book dealing with Mr. Dodgson’s mathematical works. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Dodgson’s relatives, and to all those kind friends of his and others who have aided me, in so many ways, in my difficult task. In particular, I may mention the names of H.R.H. the Duchess of Albany; Miss Dora Abdy; Mrs. Egerton Allen; Rev. F. H. Atkinson; Sir G. Baden-Powell, M.P.; Mr. A. Ball; Rev. T. Vere Bayne; Mrs. Bennie; Miss Blakemore; the Misses Bowman; Mrs. Boyes; Mrs. Bremer; Mrs. Brine; Miss Mary Brown; Mrs. Calverley; Miss Gertrude Chataway; Mrs. Chester; Mr. J. C. Cropper; Mr. Robert Davies; Miss Decima Dodgson; the Misses Dymes; Mrs. Eschwege; Mrs. Fuller; Mr. Harry Furniss; Rev. C. A. Goodhart; Mrs. Hargreaves; Miss Rose Harrison; Mr. Henry Holiday; Rev. H. Hopley; Miss Florence Jackson; Rev. A. Kingston; Mrs. Kitchin; Mrs. Freiligrath Kroeker; Mr. F. Madan; Mrs. Maitland; Miss M. E. Manners; Miss Adelaide Paine; Mrs. Porter; Miss Edith Rix; Rev. C. J. Robinson, D.D.; Mr. S. Rogers; Mrs. Round; Miss Isabel Standen; Mr. L. Sergeant; Miss Gaynor Simpson; Mrs. Southwall; Sir John Tenniel; Miss E. Gertrude Thomson; Mrs. Woodhouse; and Mrs. Wyper.
For their help in the work of compiling the Bibliographical chapter and some other parts of the book, my thanks are due to Mr. E. Baxter, Oxford; the Controller of the University Press, Oxford; Mr. A. J. Lawrence, Rugby; Messrs. Macmillan and Co., London; Mr. James Parker, Oxford; and Messrs. Ward, Lock and Co., London.
In the extracts which I have given from Mr. Dodgson’s Journal and Correspondence it