Joe, on the question of the Collingwood family fortune. Dodgson certainly thought they were likely to be in dire straights as he sent £50 to Mary on the 5th...
Referring to a posting in the last year or so: "So, in the original it's actually 'tore up' not 'burned', and as we can see there's no suggestion it was...
Did Collingwood install himself in his uncle's room in the Chestnuts? Six months after the first book, he had his second "picture" book ready for publication....
Joe, CLD didn't have a room at Guildford set up on a permanent basis. He often had to stay in a hotel if the house was full of other relatives. Whether he...
Bryan, I assume that the story of the letters being destroyed came from Alice Hargreaves' "Recollections" which appeared in the Cornhill magazine in July 1932....
... Yes. ... the earlier ones" and refers to the Cornhill article as her source. However ... all the letters.....". ... but he doesn't offer a source -...
No, quite a different book. Published in July 1899, it has the same publisher (Fisher Unwin) as "Life and Letters". Why did they desert Macmillan? The Lewis...
Greetings dear Carrollians, I am in the midst of translating Carroll's Phantasmagoria, and I find that more background information is needed about the...
Bryan, don't imagine the book is full of pictures though. It is a collection of things he picked up during his research on the biography and a few things that...
Following a research through the internet it seems to me that Bradshaw's Guide reference in Phantasmagoria might have a connection with the Railway Mania of...
You are quite right. Bradshaw's was a timetable guide for the railway system. Unless the journey was from one station on a line to another on the same line it...
I heard that you felt you hadn't learned much out of reading the book about LC's accounts, Keith, which I can understand beacuse it is difficult to sit down...
Thank you Keith, Your approval of my thoughts helps me a lot. By now, I came up with the importance of Ruskin's reference in the following stanza: "...And so...
Hagay, You might like to read Lewis Carroll's earlier foray into the Gothic world of Ghosts and Ghouls - "The Legend of Scotland" by "Edgar Cuthwellis". It...
Jenny, you should read what I said direct rather than depend up these malcontents who think it funny to twist what folk say. I'll elaborate upon what I meant...
What you say is very interesting, Keith. I hope you did not get the impression I was peeved with anything you had said about my book: I think it is quite hard...
... I know that the house he was living in, The Southwick (pronounced 'Suddick") Rectory, would have been a very posh house at the time. It's still a large and...
Jenny, I didn't think you were peeved about my posting because I knew you had no reason to be so, I thought you were peeved by what whoever told you about it ...
Well, I have always felt that the 'narrow window' allusion to be quite clearly Carroll's contempt of those who slavishly followed Ruskin without understanding...
For anyone who uses Google Earth you can find the birthplace site and the church in Daresbury village at the following locations. The Well at the birthplace...
Jenny, one other thing that in the early days of his bank details skewed his accounts was that he was acting as a banker for his brothers. Presumably his...
... bank at ... Yes, his father mentions doing this in the book of his letters to Skeffington collected by Anne Clark Amor. The sums paid in are quite ...
Jenny, the relative poverty of the vast majority in England at that time does make these comparisons difficult. In 1888 rent could take 5/6d a week, a loaf ...
Hi On page 213 of the Cohen biog (and, coincidentally, also on page 213 of the Leach book), CLD is quoted as writing "I had a good deal of talk with Mrs....
Jeremy, this get together was in December 1866 about the time AIW was starting be noticed and it could be that his new found fame but not fortune as yet had ...
Another thing to consider is why do people always have the assumption that it is some untoward behaviour on CLD's part with the insinuation that this is likely...
