Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym for the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898),
lecturer of mathematics at Oxford University, England. He is best known as the
author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a Victorian Era children’s
story. The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook in the Rare Book & Special Collections
Division of the Library of Congress consists of one scrapbook of approximately
200 unnumbered pages, containing 142 pasted and inlaid items. Carroll appears
to have kept the scrapbook between the years 1855 and 1871. Of the approximately
200 unnumbered pages, only 63 pages contain clippings and writing, the remaining
pages are blank. Blank pages are not included in the online collection. There
are seven loose inlaid items that Carroll had presumably not yet pasted into the
scrapbook. These seven items have been placed on page 64 of the scrapbook for
presentation purposes.
Users of this online collection have the option of browsing the scrapbook, page by page; searching bibliographic information (title, subject, notes) or full-text of items within the scrapbook; or browsing the scrapbook items by author, title, and subject. |
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