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The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook |
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Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress is an original scrapbook that was kept
by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children’s
author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871),
Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford. The scrapbook contains
approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings, photographs, and a limited number
of manuscript materials, collected between 1855-72. A timeline, authored by Edward Wakeling,
former chairman of the Lewis Carroll Society, helps to place materials found in the scrapbook
in their proper context.
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