All in the golden afternoon, full leisurely we glide...
(Happy July 4th!)
On this day, July 4th, Charles Dodgson took his friend Robinson Duckworth, and the three Liddell sisters, Lorina, Edith and Alice, on the first of several boating trips. Over that summer the first incarnation of the tale of "Alice's adventures Underground" (now known to all as Alice's adventures in Wonderland) was told episodically in a stop start fashion by Dodgson. The tale was made up on the spot and subsequent parts incorperated jokes and things Duckworth and the Liddells would find funny or interesting. The story was written down much, much later and presented to Alice Liddell in November 1864.
