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.
He is best known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a Victorian Era children’s story. Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym for the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), lecturer of mathematics at Oxford University, England. A timeline, authored by Edward Wakeling, former chairman of the Lewis Carroll Society, helps to place materials found in the scrapbook in their proper context. The scrapbook contains approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings, photographs, and a limited number of manuscript materials, collected between 1855-72. Better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children’s author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford.
An original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
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