Happy July the 4th!
Here's some of Dodgson's first sketches for Alice's adventures Underground.
Summer of 1862.
Charles Dodgson is telling the ‘Alice’ story to the three famous sisters, Ina, Alice and Edith Liddell, while on their famous river-trips. Indications are the girls loved the tale and were always begging for new instalments, but that Dodgson was less enthusiastic (on one occasion he calls it the ‘interminable’ Alice’s Adventures, and is peeved because he wants to sing them a new song he just made up instead). At around the same time Alice asks him to write her story down. He promises he will do so.(Essay quote from Karoline Leach)
