not have it done, there is an end of the matter.  If, however, you give a favourable reply, I would be much obliged if you would lend it me (registered post, I should think, would be safest) that I may consider the possibilities.  I have not seen it for about twenty years, so am by no means sure that the illustrations may not prove to be so awfully bad that to reproduce them would be absurd.

There can be no doubt that I should incur the charge of gross egoism in publishing it.  But I don’t care for that in the least, knowing that I have no such motive; only I think, considering the extraordinary popularity the books have had (we have sold more than 120,000 of the two), there must be many who would like to see the original form.

    Always your friend,

    C.L.  Dodgson.

The letter to Harry Furniss elicited a most satisfactory reply.  Mr. Furniss said that he had long wished to illustrate one of Lewis Carroll’s books, and that he was quite prepared to undertake the work ("Sylvie and Bruno").

[Illustration:  H. Furniss. From a photograph.]

Two more notes from the Diary, referring to the same month follow:—­

March 10th.—­A great Convocation assembled in the theatre, about a proposed grant for Physiology, opposed by many (I was one) who wish restrictions to be enacted as to the practice of vivisection for research.  Liddon made an excellent speech against the grant, but it was carried by 412 to 244.

    March 29th.—­Never before have I had so many literary
    projects on hand at once.  For curiosity, I will here make a
    list of them.

    (1) Supplement to “Euclid and Modern Rivals.”

    (2) 2nd Edition of “Euc. and Mod.  Rivals.”

(3) A book of Math. curiosities, which I think of calling “Pillow Problems, and other Math.  Trifles.”  This will contain Problems worked out in the dark, Logarithms without Tables, Sines and angles do., a paper I am now writing on “Infinities and Infinitesimals,” condensed Long Multiplication, and perhaps others.

    (4) Euclid V.

    (5) “Plain Facts for Circle-Squarers,” which is nearly
    complete, and gives actual proof of limits 3.14158, 3.14160.

    (6) A symbolical Logic, treated by my algebraic method.

    (7) “A Tangled Tale.”

(8) A collection of Games and Puzzles of my devising, with fairy pictures by Miss E.G.  Thomson.  This might also contain my “Mem.  Tech.” for dates; my “Cipher-writing” scheme for Letter-registration, &c., &c.

    (9) Nursery Alice.

    (10) Serious poems in “Phantasmagoria.”

    (11) “Alice’s Adventures Underground.”

    (12) “Girl’s Own Shakespeare.”  I have begun on “Tempest.”

    (13) New edition of “Parliamentary Representation.”