The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Life and Letters of Lewis Carrollby Stuart Dodgson CollingwoodThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: The Life and Letters of Lewis CarrollAuthor: Stuart Dodgson CollingwoodRelease Date: March 6, 2004 [EBook #11483]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF LEWIS CARROLL ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Gundry and PG DistributedProofreadersTHELIFE AND LETTERSOFLEWIS CARROLL(REV. C. L. DODGSON)BYSTUART DODGSON COLLINGWOODB.A. CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD1898TO THECHILD FRIENDSOFLEWIS CARROLLAND TO ALL WHO LOVE HIS WRITINGSTHIS BOOK IS DEDICATEDPREFACEIt is with no undue confidence that I have accepted theinvitation of the brothers and sisters of Lewis Carroll to writethis Memoir. I am well aware that the path of the biographer isbeset with pitfalls, and that, for him, _suppressio veri_ isalmost necessarily _suggestio falsi_--the least omission maydistort the whole picture.To write the life of Lewis Carroll as it should be writtenwould tax the powers of a man of far greater experience andinsight than I have any pretension to possess, and even he wouldprobably fail to represent adequately such a complex personality.At least I have done ...