Lewis Carroll • 4 juli 1862

• De Brit Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) werd wereldberoemd met zijn boeken Alice in Wonderland en Through the Looking-glass, die hij schreef voor het meisje Alice Liddell. In zijn dagboek vermeldde hij wanneer hij de familie Liddell daarover vertelde.

July 4 (F) Atkinson brought over to my rooms some friends of his, a Mrs. & Miss Peters, of whom I took photographs, & who afterwards looked over my albums & staid to lunch. They then went off to the Museum, & Duckworth & I made an expedition up the river to Godstow with the 3 Liddells: we had tea on the bank there, & did not reach Ch. Ch. Again till ¼ past 8, when we took them on to my rooms to see my collection of micro-photographs, & restored them to the Deanery just before 9

[Later voegde hij hieraan toe:]
On which occasion I told them the fairy-tale of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” which I undertook to write out for Alice, & which is now finished (as to the text) though the pictures are not yet nearly done — Feb. 10. 1863
nor yet — Mar. 12. 1864.
“Alice’s Hour in Elfland”? June 9/64.
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”? June 28.

July 5 (Sat.) Left, with Atkinson, for London at 9.. 2, meeting at the station the Liddells, who went along by the same train. We reached 4, Alfred Place about 11, & found Aunt [Lucy, Frances], & [Elizabeth] there, & took the 2 last to see Marochetti’s studio. After luncheon Atkinson left, & we visited the International Bazaar.