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To the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Torquay
May 11th [1866]

Dear Mr Dodgson Your kind note and parcel have followed me here, and much obliged we are for them. We - and all the party here - think these by far the best photos that have yet been taken of me - and they are pronounced to be excellent likenesses of us both, as I am sure they are admirable photographs. Would you let us have - on the purchasing terms - half a dozen of ... continue reading

To Margaret Wilcox
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 16th [1869]

My dear Miss Wilcox, I hope your mother is improving in spite of the cold winds and that you are beginning to think of turning your face to the South, now that Easter is so near. It will be a great pleasure to see you, and I hope you will soon be able to mention a day.

Do tell me if you know the answer to Mr Dodgson’s Acrostic in Phantasmagoria I am sure that the second ... continue reading

To Frances Jane Dodgson
Elderfield
Novr 6th[?1898-1900]
My dear Miss Dodgson, I will keep your card to consider in case a certain poor Alfred Shany is disposed of, he is 43, and every five years has to be freshly voted for as he will be turned out on his family's hands. I well remember that day of your Brother's photography. It was the only time except once that my mother was photographed so we should be very glad to have the negatives   ... continue reading