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 2004/05/18
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LATEST FROM LONDON.

(From our Private Correspondence.)

London, Tuesday Night.

I UNDERSTAND that the gentleman who calls himself “Lewis Carroll,” and as such is so widely known as the author of the fairy stories, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,” and “Through the Looking-glass,” is the Rev. Mr Dodgson, of Christchurch, Oxford.

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The stories were first told, I understand, to Miss Alice Liddle, the daughter of the Dean of Christchurch. Mr Dodgson took his degree in 1853 as a first class in mathematics, and he is now mathematical lecturer at Christchurch. He is about forty years of age. The article which appeared some time ago in “Macmillan's Magazine,” and which professed to trace the famous poem, of the “Jabberwock” (which appeared in “Through the Looking-glass”) to a German origin, was of course a “squib,” and proceeded, I am given to understand, from the pen of the master of a certain College in Oxford.