Lewis Carroll’s Diariesさんのイラストまとめ

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. 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.]

Nov. 11, 1882: To town at 9. Called on Miss Rossetti, and gave her the negative of her brother I had promised.

[Carroll’s portraits of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti below]

Nov. 10, 1890: Skeffington, on his way to Guildford, with his little “Irene” (whom I had never seen) came to luncheon, to which I asked Stuart Collingwood, to meet him.

[Carroll’s portrait of his brother, Skeffington, 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)