"In the middle of a bright yellow room at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York sits the 150-year-old original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written and self-published by the enigmatic Oxford University mathematics teacher Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll.
(Photography by Graham S. Haber)
One of the most popular works in English literature, Alice in Wonderland (originally titled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground) started as oral tale to entertain three children—sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice Liddell—during a boating trip down the Thames River on a hot summer day in 1862. Carroll, then a young Oxford tutor, spun the fantastic tale packed with riddles, puzzles, and logic games, partly to practice his lessons in mathematical logic, which he taught at Christ Church, Oxford, for 26 years."
