The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll is a biographical work of the British novelist who created the most popular children's fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This biography has been written by Lewis's niece Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, an English clergyman and headmaster.

Preface:

It is with no undue confidence that I have accepted the invitation of the brothers and sisters of Lewis Carroll to write this Memoir. I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi—the least omission may distort the whole picture.

To write the life of Lewis Carroll as it should be written would tax the powers of a man of far greater experience and insight than I have any pretension to possess, and even he would probably fail to represent adequately such a complex personality. At least I have done my best to justify their choice, and if in any way I have wronged my uncle's memory, unintentionally, I trust that my readers will pardon me.