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]

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. 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.

Nov. 13, 1857: Finished the poem of “Hiawatha’s Photographing.”

[A parody of Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha.” Arthur B. Frost’s illustrations below.]

Oct 27, 1857: At Common Room breakfast met, for the first time, John Ruskin. I had a little conversation with him, but not enough to bring out anything characteristic or striking in him. His appearance was rather disappointing, a general feebleness of expression, with no (1/2)

Apr. 16, 1881: we are just about to set up in slip the new edition of Phantasmagoria (for which nearly 40 pictures are now drawn): and I am beginning negotiations for a coloured Alice.

Apr. 14, 1858: Visited the Zoological Gardens and Madame Tussauds with Edwin

Mar. 7, 1890: Received from Mr. E. Evans a finished set of the sheets of Nursery “Alice”. It is a great success.

Feb. 28, 1877: Heard from Sambourne, asking if I have arranged for having Phantasmagoria illustrated, as he again thinks he can undertake it.

[The work was ultimately illustrated by A. B. Frost; Sambourne would go on to illustrate “The Water-Babies” in 1886 (images below)]