“Love to Nellie and Emsie.—Your ever loving Uncle,
“C. L. D.”
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And now I think that I have done all that has been in my power to present Lewis Carroll to you in his most delightful aspect—as a friend to children. I have not pretended in any way to write an exhaustive life-story of the man who was so dear to me, but by the aid of the letters and the diaries that I have been enabled to publish, and by the few reminiscences that I have given you of Lewis Carroll as I knew him, I hope I have done something to bring still nearer to your hearts the memory of the greatest friend that children ever had.
Footnotes:
[1] This refers to my visit to America when, as a child, I played the little Duke of York in “Richard III.”
[2] At this point the real child’s answers begin, the three or four lines alone were written by Mr. Dodgson himself.—Ed.
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