Lewis Carroll’s Diariesさんのイラストまとめ

Jan. 27, 1872: My birthday was signalised by hearing from Mr. Craik that they have now sold 15,000 Looking-Glasses, and have orders for 500 more!

May 15, 1871: Mrs. Hatch (and children) called on my sisters in the afternoon.

[Dodgson’s portraits of Beatrice and Evelyn Hatch, c. 1874 and 1880, below]

Dec. 30, 1886: To London...to [see] Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Savile Clarke’s play at the Prince of Wales’ Theatre. The first Act (“Wonderland”) goes well, specially the Mad Tea Party. Mr. Sydney Harcourt is a capital “Hatter,” and little Dorothy d’Alcourt (aged 6 1/2) is a (1/3)

Dec. 18, 1865: Sent Lord Mount Charles a print of the “Chinese Group,” and also a copy of Alice to give to his eldest child, Blanche.

[Dodgson is referring to the photo of Alice and Lorina Liddell below, taken in 1860]

Dec. 9, 1891: As Mrs. Hargreaves, the original “Alice,” is now at the Deanery, I invited her also over to tea. She could not do this, but very kindly came over, with Rhoda, for a short time in the afternoon.

Nov. 30, 1865: Went to the Winter Exhibition of British Artists, and Mrs. Cameron’s photographs. Called on Macmillan, who tells me 500 Alices are already sold.

[Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron below]

Nov. 29, 1890: History is moving briskly just now! First, Parnell’s disgrace as co-respondent in a divorce suit. Then Gladstone’s letter, calling on him to resign the leadership of the “Home Rule” party. And this morning Parnell’s Manifesto to the Irish People, revealing (1/2)

Nov. 27, 1877: Yesterday I wrote to Mr. Walter Crane (artist of the Baby’s Opera and the Cuckoo-Clock) to see if he would be willing to undertake some drawings for me (for Phantasmagoria and Bruno’s Revenge).

[Images from The Baby’s Opera and Molesworth’s Cuckoo-Clock below]

Nov. 16, 1891: A remarkable day. The Duchess of Albany is at the Deanery with her children...I taught them to fold paper pistols, and to blot their names in creased paper, and showed them the machine which, by rapid spinning, turns the edging of a cup, etc., into a filmy solid...

Nov. 15, 1889: today and yesterday I worked from breakfast to 9 1/2 p.m., not going into Hall, but waiting to sup at 10: and at last the whole book is arranged in pages. If only Cooper can satisfy Mr. Furniss with his nine wood-cuts, we can get Sylvie and Bruno out at Christmas.