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...Holman Hunt and J. E. Millais (whom Lear called "Uncle" when he didn't call him "Aunt"), Lear once shared a farmhouse studio. Close friends of Lear were Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife, with whom Lear had his closest feminine friendship. But Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is so carefully unmentioned in Lear's long letters and diary that Author Davidson thinks Lear may have been jealous of the author of Alice in Wonderland...
...again, now standing on one foot and loosening its collar with the other, "that befalls me on this celebration of the one hundred and fourth anniversary A. D. (and here he paused looking over to the Dormouse who, though eyes closed, nodded assent) of our beloved author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll, to pay him homage for the joy he has given to millions of people...
...class life, at his death in 1931 was known as one of the greatest religious draughtsmen since Rembrandt. Mr. Wiggin's Forain collection is unmatched in the U. S., has only three peers in Europe: the Dresden Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the London collection of Campbell Dodgson...
Professor Bertram James Collingwood, University of London physiologist, nephew of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), came lecturing to the U. S. to raise funds for a children's "Wonderland Ward" in St. Mary's Hospital. London, as a memorial to his uncle, and for a similar ward in the Babies Hospital of New York's Medical Center. Said he: "I am hoping to find a prominent American lady who will be Chief Cheshire Cat for the Helpers of Wonderland League which we would like to start here to interest children the two projects. In England Mrs. Cecil...
Harcourt Amory was a diligent collector of the works of Charles L. Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Lewis Carroll", and in addition to his collection of Dodgson's books, constructed a toy theater, in which he used miniatures of the characters in "Alice in Wonderland". Armory cared little for the pamphlets on mathematics and logic, which the versatile Dodgson published, and was, for the most part, concerned with the changing types of illustrations used in the various editions of "Alice...