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Alice in Underwearland. (letters written by Lewis Carroll)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 19940401
Author:Carroll, Lewis

From a series of letters written in 1879 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to Anthony Mayhew, a fellow professor at Oxford University, and his wife, about their daughters: Janet, age six; Ethel, age eleven; and Ruth, age thirteen. The letters appear in History Laid Bare: Remarkable Accounts of Love, Sex, and Perversity, edited by Richard Zacks and published by HarperCollins; they were originally published by Oxford University Press in The Letters of Lewis Carroll.

May 26, 1879 Dear Mrs. Mayhew,

Your Ethel is beautiful, both in face and form; and is also a ...

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