The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-10
LEWIS cAnaoLr's REGULARITY.
Refused to Acknowledge Authorship o
His Books.

Refused to Acknowledge Authorship Of
His Books.
From the London News.
As most people know, the author of
Alice In Wonderland" jealousy guard
ed his p~seudonym of Lewis Carroll In
the case of his fictions, and resented
nothing so much as a hint tina he was
interested in any but mathematical
works The amusing writer of Pages
From a Private Diary" in the March
number OF the Cornhill tells a story In
illustration of this popularity. He once
committed the indiscretion of On
founding the humorist with the Don
and was snubbed for his pains. An
Oxford bookseller had old him that
Mr.. Dodgson was extremely particular
about the printing OF his 'Aiices'' and
that every copy not up to his ideal was
withheld from sale and given to the
poor. II" he continues, coveted some
of these for our village children and.
being in Oxford. sent a note to Christ
church asking IL ! had been accurately
informed. and received in reply the fol-
lowing printed circular:
&C. l.. Dodgson is so frequently adj
dressed by strangers on the quite un-
authorized assumption that he claims.
or at any rate acknowledges, the au-
thorship OF books not published under
his name. that he has found IL neces-
sary to print this. once for all. as an
answer to such applications. He nei-
the claims nor acknowledges any con-
nection with any pseudonym or with
any book not published under his own
name.
'aCh Ch., Oxford"
Mrs. Reginald H~argreaves. the origi-
nal Alice OF Alice in Wonderland"
sends to the st. James Gazette an in
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the famou book to which she has
given her name.
Most of Mr.. Dodgson's stories"
writes Mrs. Hargreaves. were told to
us on river expeditions to Nuneham. or
Godstow. near oxford. MY eldest
sister, now Mrs. Skene. was Prima.
mentioned in the poem at the beginning
of 'Alice's Ventures i'm Wonderland. I
was Secunda. and Tertia was my sister
Edith. I believe the beginning Of
Alice was old one summer afternoon
when the sun was so burning that we
had landed in the meadows down the
river. deserving the BOAT to lake refuge
in the only bit of shade to be found
which was under a new-made hayrick.
Here from all three came the old petit
ton of tell us a s;ory'-and so began
the ever-delightful tale. Sometimes to
tease us-and perhaps being really
tired-Mr. Dodgson would stop sudden
ly and say, AND that's all till next
time 'Ah. but IL Is mex time would
be the exclamation from all three, and
after some persuasion the story would
begin in the boat. and Mr.. Dodgson, in
the middle of telling. would pretend to
go fast asleep. to our great dismay. j
have often thought. with gratitude and
wonder. of the unvarying kindness and
good nature shown US. Alice's adven-
lures were first written down in answer
to my teasing wish to possess the story
in book form. Long before this, l can
remember. i'm the intervals between
photographing one or the other of us.
Mr.. Dodgson would make quaint draw
inRs in the style of Father William
and fit them to a story he told as the
drawings were made. Sheets of these
were treasured by me, but, alas, none
remain now"