The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
SCANTY MEAL”
ILLUSTRATIONS TO “LAYS OF SORROW,” NO. 2
GRAVE OF ARCHDEACON AND MRS. DODGSON IN CROFT CHURCHYARD
ALICE LIDDELL AS “THE BEGGAR-CHILD”
SKETCH FROM ST. LEONARD’S CONCERT-ROOM
GEORGE MACDONALD AND HIS DAUGHTER LILY
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
PROFESSOR FARADAY
JUSTICE DENMAN
LORD SALISBURY AND HIS TWO SONS
FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM SIR JOHN TENNIEL TO LEWIS CARROLL, DATED JUNE 1, 1870
JOHN RUSKIN
HENRY HOLIDAY IN HIS STUDIO
LEWIS CARROLL
ELLEN TERRY
TOM TAYLOR
KATE TERRY
MISS E. GERTRUDE THOMSON
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”
CHAPTER I
(1832—1850.)
Lewis Carroll’s forebears—The Bishop of Elphin—Murder of Captain Dodgson—Daresbury—Living in “Wonderland”—Croft—Boyish amusements—His first school-Latin verses—A good report—He goes to Rugby—The Rectory Umbrella—“A Lay of Sorrow.”
ARCHDEACON DODGSON AS A YOUNG MAN
The Dodgsons appear to have been for a long time connected with the north of England, and until quite recently a branch of the family resided at Stubb Hall, near Barnard Castle.
In the early part of the last century a certain Rev. Christopher Dodgson held a living in Yorkshire. His son, Charles, also took Holy Orders, and was for some time tutor to a son of the then Duke of Northumberland. In 1762 his patron presented him to the living of Elsdon, in Northumberland, by no means a desirable cure, as Mr. Dodgson discovered. The following extracts from his letters to various members of the Percy family are interesting as giving some idea of the life of a rural clergyman a hundred years ago:
I am obliged to you for promising to write to me, but don’t give yourself the trouble of writing to this place, for ‘tis almost impossible