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Feb. 21, 1885: went...to the Grosvenor to see the collection of [Richard] Doyle’s pictures, some quite lovely, specially an old favourite, the fairies trimming the goats’ beards, and a large one (new to me) of the “Pied Piper”.
Jan. 12, 1856: Mrs. Scholfield has a copy of the Madonna della Seggiola, the size of the original, and framed in imitation of it...There too I met with a copy of that lithograph from Lawrence I have been trying to get. It is called “The lovely sisters”...
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. 13, 1857: Finished the poem of “Hiawatha’s Photographing.”
[A parody of Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” written in what Carroll refers to as the original poem’s “easy running metre” (trochaic tetrameter). 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, ... (1/2)