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Lewis Carroll Scrapbook

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Johnson and Blondin. Extract from Boswell's life.

AUTHOR/CREATOR
Johnson, Dr.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
1862

NOTES
Charles Blondin (1824-1897), real name Jean Francois Gravelet, was a French acrobat and tightrope walker. In 1859 he crossed the Niagara Falls on a tightrope in five minutes. Dodgson saw him perform at Oxford in July 1862 during his tour of the United Kingdom.

MEDIUM
Newspaper clipping

LANGUAGE
English

PART OF
Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress, page 27

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. 20540

DIGITAL ID
lchtml 002701
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lchtml.002701

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