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...Lewis Carroll's birth from Jan. 27 to May 4, which will be Mrs. Hargreaves' 80th birthday. The postponement was arranged to spare Mrs. Hargreaves the rigors of a winter voyage. "Alice" alone survives of the three daughters of Dean Henry George Liddell for whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the sombre, pedantic young Oxford lecturer, composed the fantastic "Wonderland" stories. Her husband died six years ago. Two of her sons were killed in the War; a third son lives in London...
...little girl that once when her sister was reading a volume devoid of such attractions she crawled off down a hole in search of a white rabbit she had seen. Thus was Alice sent into wonderland, and thus did Lewis Carrol scale the heights upon which Charles Dodgson has faltered...
...with apologies to the memory of Charles Dodgson...
When the summer was over, Mr. Dodgson wrote down his story and gave it to Alice Liddell for a Christmas present. It was called Alice's Adventures Underground; there were about 40 pictures in it and a tremendous number of conversations. The meticulous manuscript which Mr. Dodgson gave to Alice was read by some of his friends as well as, doubtless, by hers. Eventually, he was persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many...
...illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book V., Proved Algebraically. Years later, Lewis Carroll...