Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [Illustration: _Miss Isa Bowman as Alice in "Alice in Wonderland"_] THE STORY OF LEWIS CARROLL TOLD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE REAL ALICE IN WONDERLAND MISS ISA BOWMAN WITH A DIARY AND NUMEROUS FACSIMILE LETTERS WRITTEN TO MISS ISA BOWMAN AND OTHERS. ALSO MANY SKETCHES AND PHOTOS BY LEWIS CARROLL AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 1900 COPYRIGHT, 1899 BY E. P. DUTTON & CO. The Knickerbocker Press, New York ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE MISS ISA BOWMAN (IN PHOTOGRAVURE) _Frontispiece_ LEWIS CARROLL'S ROOM IN OXFORD 9 C. L. DODGSON 13 A CHINAMAN 17 BEGGAR CHILDREN 35 ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON 59 LEWIS CARROLL'S HOUSE AT EASTBOURNE 65 MISS ISA BOWMAN AND MISS BESSIE HATTON AS THE LITTLE PRINCES IN THE TOWER 73 ISA BOWMAN AS DUKE OF YORK 77 MISS ISA BOWMAN AS "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" (IN PHOTOGRAVURE) 80 THE LITTLE PRINCES 83 "DOLLY VARDEN" 95 "A TURK" 103 FACSIMILE OF A CHARADE 108-109-110 LEWIS CARROLL It seems to me a very difficult task to sit down at a desk and write "reminiscences" of a friend who has gone from us all. It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved. And yet it is in a measure one's duty to tell the world something of the inner life of a famous man; and Lewis Carroll was so wonderful a personality, and so good a man, that if my pen dragged ever so slowly, I feel that I can at least tell something of his life which is worthy the telling. Writing with the sense of his loss still heavy upon me, I must of necessity colour my account with sadness. I am not in the ordinary sense a biographer. I cannot set down a critical estimate, a cold, dispassionate summing-up of a man I loved; but I can write of a few things that happened when I was a little girl, and when he used to say to me that I was "_his_ little girl."