Volume 26, Number 13 · August 16, 1979
Dodgson's Passion
By Rosemary Dinnage
The Letters of Lewis Carroll Vol. I: 1837-1885 Vol. II: 1886-1898
edited by Morton N. Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green
Oxford University Press, 1,244 pp., $60.00, boxed set
Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies
by Morton N. Cohen
Clarkson Potter, 32 pp., $10.00
Lewis Carroll is one of the writers who evoke a special kind of fuss—pedantic, nostalgic, ingrown. The first sentence of editor Morton N. Cohen's acknowledgments sets the tone: 'Almost two decades have passed since, on a golden summer afternoon, Roger Lancelyn Green proposed, over cups of tea in the garden of his Cheshire home, that the two of us collect and edit Lewis Carroll's letters for publication.' The golden summer afternoon, as everyone must know, is a reference to a journey by rowing boat from Folly Bridge, Oxford, to Godstow Lock—
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