The Authentic Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll (1864)
On a summer day in 1862, a tall, stammering Oxford University mathematician named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a ship journey up the River Thames, accompanied by a colleague and the three younger daughters of university chancellor Henry Liddell. To stave off tedium during the five-mile journey, Dodgson regaled the group with a story of a…