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The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll

by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

PREFACE

It is with no undue confidence that I have accepted the invitation of the brothers and sisters of Lewis Carroll to write this Merapher is beset with pitfalls, and that, for hiestio 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 ht 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 htful one Inti his life, I seem since his death to have become still better acquainted with him If this Mee of a man whom to knoas 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 er, MA, to whomwith Mr

Dodgson's son'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 HRH the duchess of Albany; Miss Dora Abdy; Mrs Egerton Allen; Rev F H Atkinson; Sir G Baden-Powell, MP; 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 Decie; 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, DD; 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 coraphical 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 froson's Journal and Correspondence it will be noticed that Italics have been somewhat freely employed to represent the words which he underlined The use of Italics was so marked a feature of his literary style, as any one who has read his books must have observed, that without their aid the rhetorical effect, which he always strove to produce, would have been seriously marred

S DODGSON COLLINGWOOD

GUILDFORD, _September_, 1898

CHAPTER I

(1832-1850)

Lewis Carroll's forebears--The Bishop of Elphin--Murder of Captain Dodgson--Daresbury--Living in ”Wonderland”--Croft--Boyish aood report--He goes to Rugby--_The Rectory Usons appear to have been for a long tiland, and until quite recently a branch of the family resided at Stubb Hall, near Barnard Castle