Lewis Carroll’s Diariesさんのイラストまとめ

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

Mar. 28, 1889: Took Mrs. Barnes to the Globe to see Richard III....Miss Bessie Hatton made a perfectly charming Prince of Wales: her enunciation is simply delicious. Isa Bowman was also good as the little Duke of York...

[Bowman in character below]

Mar. 17, 1857: Went to tea with Tyrwhitt, and to copy his verses on deer-stalking. We had a long talk on Art, Ruskin, etc., etc.

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)]

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”...

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)

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. 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]