LEWIS CARROLL
From a photograph.

ELLEN TERRY
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.

TOM TAYLOR
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863.

KATE TERRY
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1865.

MISS E. GERTRUDE THOMSON
From a photograph.

DR. LIDDELL
From a photograph by Hill & Saunders.

“RESPONSIONS”
From a photograph by A.T.  Shrimpton.

H. FURNISS
From a photograph.

“BALBUS AND THE DRAGON”
From a crayon drawing by the Rev. H.C.  Gaye.

MEDLEY OF TENNIEL’S ILLUSTRATIONS IN “ALICE”
From an etching by Miss Whitehead.

FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM H. FURNISS TO LEWIS CARROLL,

DATED AUGUST 23, 1886

SYLVIE AND BRUNO
From a drawing by Henry Holiday.

FACSIMILE OF PROGRAMME OF “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” PRODUCED AT THE ROYAL GLOBE THEATRE, DECEMBER 26, 1888.

“THE MAD TEA PARTY”
From a photograph by Elliott and Fry.

THE LATE DUKE OF ALBANY
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1875.

THE DEAN OF CHRIST CHURCH
From a photograph by Hill & Saunders.

THE MECHANICAL “HUMPTY DUMPTY”
From a photograph.

LEWIS CARROLL
From a photograph.

THE CHESTNUTS, GUILDFORD
From a photograph.

LEWIS CARROLL’S GRAVE
From a photograph.

LORINA AND ALICE LIDDELL
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.

ALICE LIDDELL
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.

XIE KITCHIN
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.

XIE KITCHIN AS A CHINAMAN
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.

ALICE AND THE DORMOUSE
From a photograph by Elliott and Fry.

FACSIMILE OF A “LOOKING-GLASS” LETTER FROM LEWIS CARROLL
TO MISS EDITH BALL

ARTHUR HUGHES AND HIS DAUGHTER AGNES
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863.

“WHAT I LOOK LIKE WHEN I’M LECTURING”
From a drawing by Lewis Carroll.

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CHAPTER I

(1832-1850.)

Lewis Carroll’s forebears—­The Bishop of Elphin—­Murder of Captain Dodgson—­Daresbury—­Living in “Wonderland”—­Croft—­Boyish amusements—­His first school—­Latin verses—­A good report—­He goes to Rugby—­The Rectory Umbrella—­“A Lay of Sorrow.”

The Dodgsons appear to have been for a long time connected with the north of England, and until quite recently a branch of the family resided at Stubb Hall, near Barnard Castle.

In the early part of the last century a certain Rev. Christopher Dodgson held a living in Yorkshire.  His son, Charles, also took Holy Orders, and was for some time tutor to a son of the then Duke of Northumberland.  In 1762 his patron presented him to the living of Elsdon, in Northumberland, by no means a desirable cure, as Mr. Dodgson discovered.  The following extracts from his letters to various members of the Percy family are interesting as giving some idea of the life of a rural clergyman a hundred years ago: