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I don't like _either_ face of Lady Muriel I don't think I could talk to her; and I'm quite sure I couldn't fall in love with her Her dress (”evening,” of course) is very pretty, I think

I don't like the Earl's face either He is proud of his title, very forth” always And he is too prodigiously tall I want a gentle, genial old man; ho becoe 388), is exactly my conception of it I expect this will be one of the most effective pictures in the book The faces of the people should express intense _terror_

(9) ”The Professor” is altogether _delightful_ When you get the text, you will see that you have hit the very centre of the bull's-eye

[A sketch of ”Bruno”] No, no! Please don't give us the (to ly, quite modern costuy, pot-bellied (excuse the vulgarism) boy, who couldn't run a _, but at the saure of one of the little acrobats one sees at the circus--not ”Master To Also that dress I dislike very ive hiht knee-breeches they are rapidly shrinking to

Very truly yours,

C L Dodgson

By Mr Furniss's kind perive an example of the other side of the correspondence, one of his letters to Mr

Dodgson, all thelittle sketch which it contains

With respect to the spider, Mr Dodgson had written: ”Some writer says that the full face of a spider, as seen under a ”

[Illustration: _Facsiust 23, 1886_]

[Illustration: Sylvie and Bruno _Fro by Henry Holiday_]

CHAPTER VII

(1888-1891)

A systeson's shyness--”A Lesson in Latin”--The ”Wonderland”

Sta”--Princess Alice--”Sylvie and Bruno”--”The night cometh”--”The Nursery 'Alice'”--Coventry Patnation of Dr

Liddell--A letter about Logic

An old bachelor is generally very precise and exact in his habits He has no one but hi to distract his attention froson was the most precise and exact of old bachelors He made a precis of every letter he wrote or received from the 1st of January, 1861, to the 8th of the same month, 1898 These precis were all nuenious syste he was able to trace a whole correspondence, which h several volumes The last nureen cardboard boxes, all neatly labelled, in which he kept his various papers These boxes fore nu bookstand The lists, of various sorts, which he kept were innuenerally held seventy or eighty naraph-hunters, whoht in being arithmetically accurate about every detail of life

He always rose at the same early hour, and, if he was in residence at Christ Church, attended College Service He spent the day according to a prescribed routine, which usually included a long walk into the country, very often alone, but sometimes with another Don, or perhaps, if the as not to be as long as usual, with soirl-friend at his side When he had a cohtful stories, or explaining soical problem; if he was alone, he used to think out his books, as probably many another author has done and will do, in the course of a lonely walk The only irregularity noticeable in his , which varied fro to the amount of hich he felt hiood memory, except for faces and dates The for-block to him, and people used to say (hted One night he went up to London to dine with a friend, whoreeted hison, ”but you have the advantage ofever seen you before this e,” the other replied, ”for I was your host last night!” Such little incidents as this happened more than once To help himself to remember dates, he devised a syste his friends As it has never been published, and as some of my readers may find it useful, I reproduce it here

My ”Memoria Technica” is a modification of Gray's; but, whereas he used both consonants and vowels to represent digits, and had to content hiibberish to represent the date or whatever other number was required, I use only consonants, and fill in with vowels _ad libitue to make a real word of whatever has to be represented