The (almost really) Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

Contents by Source

Contents: Novels and Stories • Poems • Mathematical Books • Other Books • Contributions to Books • Magazines, Newspapers • Pamphlets, Leaflets, etc. • Unpublished Galley Proofs • Manuscripts • Missing Works • Lost Works • Further Reading

All texts name their source. This is either the the complete story (for “extracted”), which can be found in some other chapter, or the book, magazine, etc. the text comes from. The best available source is listed and described here. Note that in some cases the description is from the Lewis Carroll Handbook. This list also includes the works not included in this book.

As far as possible the sources give links to freely available scans from the Internet Archive, but in some cases scans are only available on other sites, not always with free access. For some scans from Google Books you might need to use a proxy located in the US to access them, these are marked thus.US-proxy

Some texts are only available in modern reprints. In some cases (and for many books listed in the section on “Further Reading”) they can be borrowed from the Internet Archive, but you need a free account to do so.

Novels and Stories

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1866 (printed 1865), several unnumbered editions; illustrations by John Tenniel

scans from https://archive.org/details/alicesadventur00carr (1866) and https://archive.org/details/alicesadventure00tenngoog (1898), text of preface from 1886 from the Lewis Carroll Handbook

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1871/1872, several unnumbered editions; illustrations by John Tenniel

scans from https://archive.org/details/throughlooking00carr (1872) and https://archive.org/details/throughlookinggl00carr3 (1897)

There is also an edition with both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in one volume.

Alice’s Adventures under Ground

Being a Facsimile of the Original MS. Book

Afterwards Developed into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

Original written in 1864, published as book by Lewis Carroll in facsimile 1886; illustrations by Lewis Carroll

scans from https://archive.org/details/AlicesAdventuresUnderGround1864 (manuscript) and https://archive.org/details/alicesadventure00carrgoog/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044037112588&view=1up&seq=9 (book)

Several illustrations of the original manuscript are in colour, while they are monochrome in the printed book.

The Nursery “Alice”

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1890 (first printed 1889), several issues; illustrations by John Tenniel (coloured), cover by E. Gertrude Thomson

scan from https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FoUyAQAAMAAJ

Sylvie and Bruno

By Lewis Carroll, published 1889; illustrations by Harry Furniss

scan from https://archive.org/details/sylviebruno00carr

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

By Lewis Carroll, published 1893; illustrations by Harry Furniss

scan from https://archive.org/details/sylviebrunoconcl00carrrich

Poems

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

By Lewis Carroll, published 1869, three issues

scan from https://archive.org/details/phantasmagoriaot00carrrich

The Hunting of the Snark.

An Agony, in Eight Fits.

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1876, several issues (without changes to the text); illustrations by Henry Holiday

scans from https://archive.org/details/huntingofsnarkan00carruoft (advertisements missing) and https://archive.org/details/huntingofsnarkag00carrrich (other defects)

Rhyme? and Reason?

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1883, several issues; illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and Henry Holiday

scans from https://archive.org/details/rhymeandreason00carrgoog (1884) and https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117591 (1897)

Three Sunsets and Other Poems

By Lewis Carroll, published 1898; illustrations by E. Gertrude Thomson

scan from https://archive.org/details/cu31924013341148

Mathematical Books

A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry

Systematically Arranged, with Formal Definitions, Postulates, and Axioms.

Part I. Containing Points, Right Lines, Rectilinear Figures, Pencils, and Circles.

By Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, published 1860

scan from https://books.google.de/books?id=HndaAAAAcAAJ

The book presents analytical geometry in seven books, mainly the presentation and manipulation of points, lines, and circles in different coordinate systems. The main text only gives definitions, axioms, and propositions without proofs, some explanations and proofs are given in the appendix.

The exact contents are: Three preliminary sections on general definitions, algebra, and plane geometry. These are followed by seven books: I. Representation of magnitude only, II. Representation of direction only, III. Representation of magnitude and direction, i. e. trigonometry, IV. Representation of position (with chapters I. Cartesian sytem, II. Polar system, III. Distantial system (with sections I. Bilinear system, II. Trilinear system, III. Multilinear system)), V. Discussion of points, right lines, rectilinear figures, and pencils, VI. Investigation of loci, VII. The circle. The work concludes with a section with formulæ and the appendix.

Notes on the First Two Books of Euclid

Designed for Candidates for Responsions.

Anonymous, published 1860

scan from https://books.google.de/books?id=iXdaAAAAcAAJ

Notes on the First Part of Algebra

(i. e. To Simple Equations Inclusive.)

Designed for Candidates for Responsions.

Anonymous, published 1861

text from Pamphlets: A Miscellany, item 38

The Formulæ of Plane Trigonometry

Printed with Symbols (Instead of Words) to Express the “Goniometrical Ratios.”

By Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, published 1861

text from Mathematical Pamphlets, item 5

General List of Subjects

Published 1863

Proof sheets from 1862 are available as item 42 in Mathematical Pamphlets. The published work is described to be exactly the same as A Guide to the Mathematical Student, except for the preface.

The Enunciations of Euclid I, II

The Enunciations of the Propositions and Corollaries, together with Questions on the Definitions, Postulates, Axioms, &c. in Euclid, Books I. and II.

Anonymous, published 1863

text available from Mathematical Pamphlets, item 2

The work contains questions (more or less a list of all defined terms, and the topics of the postulates and axioms), and the enunciations (i. e., the propositions without the proofs) of the first two books of Euclid.

A Guide to the Mathematical Student

in Reading, Reviewing, and Working Examples. Part I: Pure Mathematics

By Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, published 1864

scan from https://archive.org/details/aguidetomathema00dodggoog

An Elementary Treatis on Determinants

with Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry

By Charles L. Dodgson, published 1867

scan from https://archive.org/details/elementarytreati00carr

The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically

So Far as it Relates to Commensurable Magnitudes, with Notes

By Charles L. Dodgson, published 1868

scan from https://books.google.de/books?id=PndaAAAAcAAJ

The first part contains definitions in two columns, Euclid’s on the left, the algebraical equivalent on the right, with examples in footnotes. The second part gives algebraical proofs for the propositions.

A Discussion of the Various Methods of Procedure in Conductiong Elections

Anonymous (author given in preface), published 1873

scan from https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/35ce936d-873c-42ba-b163-95aada2bb359/, text from Political Pamphlets, item 1a (The Method of Nomination)

The Enunciations of Euclid I–VI

Together with Questions on the Definitions, Postulates, Axioms, &c.

Anonymous, published 1873

scans available from https://books.google.de/books?id=XDlbAAAAQAAJ (early proof) and https://books.google.de/books?id=Dokvy91Z3lAC

The work is both in style and content very similar to The Enunciations of Euclid I, II, but also includes the books III–VI.

Euclid, Book V.

Proved Algrebraically so far as it relates to Commensurable Magnitudes to which is prefixed a Summary of all the necessary algebraical operations.

By Charles L. Dodgson, published 1874

scan from https://archive.org/details/euclidbookvprov00carrgoog

The missing main content starts with a chapter “Preliminary Algebra”, containing basic algebraical formulæ in two columns. The chapter “Propositions” contains the propositions, first as given by Euclid, then stated algebraically with algebraical proof. The chapter “Enunciations” lists all enunciations in algebraical form, again in two columns. The next chapters contain Euclid’s Definitions and Axioms.

Euclid and his Modern Rivals

By Charles L. Dodgson, first published 1879, two editions (second 1885)

scans from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015017351969 (first edition, not reproduced here) and https://archive.org/details/euclidhismodernr00carr (second edition)

Appendix I contains an extract from Mr. Todhunter’s essay on ‘Elementary Geometry,’ included in ‘The Conflict of Studies, &c.’ Appendix II contains an extract from Mr. De Morgan’s review of Mr. Wilson’s Geometry, in the ‘Athenæum’ for July 18, 1868. Appendix IV contains a list of Propositions of Euc. I, II, with references to their occurence in the manuals of his Modern Rivals.

The first edition had two more appendices, which is why the Supplement contains an “Appendix VII”.

Supplement to “Euclid and his Modern Rivals”

Containing a Notice of Henrici’s Geometry, together with a Selection from the Reviews

Anonymous (author given in preface), published 1885

scan from https://books.google.com/books?id=J8szAQAAMAAJUS-proxy

Euclid. Books I, II

By Charles L. Dodgson, first published 1882, seven editions (private edition 1875, second 1883, third and fourth 1885, fifth 1886, sixth 1888)

scan from https://archive.org/details/euclidbooksiii00euclrich (second edition from 1883)

The main content is a slightly modified translation of Euclid I and II.2 Appendix A contains some explanatory notes to some of the axioms and propositions. Appendix B contains additional definitions, given in Euclid, but not needed in Books I, II. Appendix C contains additional definitions, not given in Euclid.

The Principles of Parliamentary Representation

By Charles L. Dodgson, first published 1884, two public editions (second 1885), additionally Supplement (1885) and Postscript to Supplement (1885)

scans from https://archive.org/details/principlesofparl00carr (first edition from 1884, including Supplement and Postscript, but with missing preface) and https://books.google.de/books?id=ZCovAAAAYAAJ (first edition from 1884, without Supplement and Postscript)

A Tangled Tale

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1885, several issues; illustrations by Arthur B. Frost

scans from https://archive.org/details/atangledtale00carrgoog and https://archive.org/details/16841884celebrat00worcrich (this has the advertisements with the note on the Index to “In Memoriam”)

The Game of Logic

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1886 (privat/American edition), first official edition 1887

scans from https://archive.org/details/gameoflogic00carrrich (1886) and https://archive.org/details/gameoflogic00carruoft (1887)

For use with the book an envelope with a card and nine counters (four red, five grey) was also published. The card is shown in Logic Pamphlets, p. 196, it has a triliteral and a biliteral diagram, similar to the frontispiece. See also https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17163/lot/603/.

A New Theory of Parallels (Curiosa Mathematica. Part I)

By Charles L. Dodgson, first published 1888, four editions (second 1889, third 1890, fourth 1895)

scans from https://archive.org/details/curiosamathemat00carrgoog (third edition, one missing page), https://books.google.de/books?id=i9ruAAAAMAAJ (third edition), and https://books.google.de/books?id=m_5KAQAAMAAJ (forth edition)

Pillow-Problems, thought out during Wakeful Hours (Curiosa Mathematica. Part II)

By Charles L. Dodgson, first published 1893 (as “… during Sleepless Nights”), four editions (second 1893, third 1894, forth 1895)

scan from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014465587&view=1up&seq=9 (third edition, not reproduced here), text from https://archive.org/details/pillowproblemsan0000carr (1958 reprint, fourth edition)

Symbolic Logic. Part I: Elementary

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1896, four editions (second and third 1896, fourth 1897)

scans from https://archive.org/details/symboliclogicpa00carrgoog (first edition), https://archive.org/details/symboliclogic00carr (second edition), https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.27867650 (fourth edition), text of preface of third edition from Logic Pamphlets, item 10

The main content only gives the text of the fourth edition, to get an idea of the differences in the earlier editions (which sometimes are minor, but in many cases are too large to properly represent) see the preface and the introduction, which give the text of all four editions.

For use with the book an envelope with a card, nine counters (four red, five grey) and a pamphlet were also published. Card and pamphlet are reprinted in Logic Pamphlets, item 5. The card has a triliteral and a biliteral diagram, the pamphlet reprints tables I to VIII from the book.

Other Books

An Index to “In Memoriam”

Anonymous, published 1862

scan from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924013559541&view=1up&seq=9

The New Method of Evaluation as Applied to π

Anonymous, first published 1865, two editions (both 1865)

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 5

The Dynamics of a Parti-cle

with an excursus on the New Method of Evaluation as applied to π

Anonymous, first published 1865, three editions (all 1865)

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 6

The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council

A Letter to the Rev. C. W. Sandford, M.A., has been addressed (on this subject) by Goldwin Smith, and may possibly reach a Second Edition

Anonymous, first published 1866

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 7

The Deserted Parks

Anonymous, published 1867

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 8

The Offer of the Clarendon Trustees

Anonymous, published 1868

scan from https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/179a125e-2800-4d02-982c-a019bc761392/surfaces/39915d31-d0aa-48bf-b812-a9553f490e61/

The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford

A Monograph

By D. C. L., first published 1872, five issues (the last in 1873, all other 1872)

scan from https://books.google.de/books?id=pvfGZXW6CwQC

The Vision of the Three T’s

A Threnody

By the author of “The New Belfry”, first published 1873, two or three editions (all 1873)

scan from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293009978697&view=1up&seq=5

The Blank Cheque, a Fable

By the author of “The New Belfry”, published 1874

scan from https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/5aed22e5-99f9-4a21-a43a-d5912867c9a3/

Notes by an Oxford Chiel

Anonymous, published 1874

scan from https://archive.org/details/notesbyoxfordchi00carrrich

All parts have been issued separately, including Facts, Figures, and Fancies, additionally to the original editions listed above.

Doublets. A Word-Puzzle

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1879, four editions (abridged 1879, second and third 1880)

scan from https://archive.org/details/doubletsawordpu00dodggoog (first edition), text of second edition from the Picture Book, pp. 275–288 (only partially, not reproduced here)

Lawn Tennis Tournaments

The True Method of Assigning Prizes with a Proof of the Fallacy of the Present Method

By Charles L. Dodgson, published 1883

partial scan from https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/Auction/Lot/712-dodgson-charles-lutwidge-lewis-carroll/?lot=131177&sd=1, text from Complete Works and Political Pamphlets, item 4

Twelve Months in a Curatorship

By one who has tried it

Anonymous, privately published 1884

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 22

Three Years in a Curatorship

By one whom it has tried

Anonymous (author given in preface), privately published 1886

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 34

Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing

By Lewis Carroll, first published 1890, five editions (second 1890, third and fourth 1891, fifth 1897)

scans from https://archive.org/details/eightorninewisew00carr_0 (first edition), https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/e38f4132-1266-4bda-842c-ddcd469825bc/ (fith edition), and https://archive.org/details/eightorninewisew00carr (later reprint of first edition, including stamp case)

Curiosissima Curatoria

By “Rude Donatus”

Anonymous (author given in preface), privately published 1892

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 65

Syzygies and Lanrick

A Word-Puzzle and a Game for Two Players

By Lewis Carroll, published 1893 (second private edition 1893)

scan from https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1QN7PTG1 (first edition), text (including second edition) from Pamphlets: Games, item 16, partial reprint similar to second private edition also in the Picture Book, pp. 289–312

Contributions to Books

Chapter 11 of The Lost Plum Cake might also be written by Carroll, see Pamphlets: A Miscellany, item 34.

Magazines, Newspapers

Whitby Gazette

scans from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1854-01-01/1854-12-31?newspapertitle=whitby%2bgazette&sortorder=dayearly (only two issues of five), text of “Wilhelm von Schmitz” 1–3 from Pamphlets: A Miscellany, item 79

The Comic Times

scan of “Photography Extraordinary” from Scrapbook, text of the rest from Mischmasch

The Train

scans from http://search.proquest.com/publication/3124, partially also https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.49804842, https://archive.org/details/trainafirstclas00sonsgoog

The Illustrated London News

scan from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1857-04-18/1857-04-18?newspapertitle=illustrated%2blondon%2bnews

Oxford Critic

scan from https://play.google.com/store/books/details/The_Oxford_Critic_and_University_Magazine?id=7PUHAAAAQAAJ, or alternatively from the Scrapbook

Illustrated Times

scan from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1860-01-28/1860-01-28?NewspaperTitle=Illustrated%2BTimes, or alternatively from the Scrapbook

All the Year Round

scan from https://archive.org/details/allyearround02dick

South Shields Amateur Magazine

scan from the Scrapbook

The College Rhymes

scans from https://books.google.com/books?id=MJEVAAAAYAAJ (1861), https://books.google.com/books?id=FZEVAAAAYAAJ (1862), https://books.google.com/books?id=8pAVAAAAYAAJ (1863); poems for November are in the volume of the following year

The Temple Bar

scan from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009224398;view=1up;seq=570

The Oxford Magazine and Church Advocate

scan from the Scrapbook

A later variant was published posthumously, see https://archive.org/details/feedingmind00carruoft.

The Morning Post

scan from https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1864-03-04/1864-03-04?newspapertitle=morning%2bpost (very poor qualitiy), text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 3

Pall Mall Gazette

scans from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?exactsearch=false&newspapertitle=pall%2bmall%2bgazette, “The Organization of Charity” also included in the Scrapbook

The Times

scans from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1866-11-21/10/5.html, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1883-09-01/7/5.html, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/page/1893-12-02/1.html, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/page/1894-03-06/1.html, “The Science of Betting” also included in the Scrapbook

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

scan from https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspl.1866.0037

This was also published as an offprint.

Punch

scan from https://archive.org/details/punch52a53lemouoft

Most bibliographies also include an anecdote Carroll contributed, published on January 3, 1874. But the published version differs so much from his, that I do not think it should count as a work by him. Therefore I did not include it here.

Aunt Judy’s Magazine

scans from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0003938263;view=1up;seq=255, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0003938271;view=1up;seq=80, https://books.google.com/books?id=6OAsAAAAYAAJ, https://books.google.com/books?id=pVMoAQAAMAAJ

Oxford University Herald

scan from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1868-11-28?NewspaperTitle=Oxford%2BUniversity%2Band%2BCity%2BHerald&IssueId=BL%2F0000994%2F18681128%2F&County=Oxfordshire%2C%20England, also included in the Scrapbook

The Oxford Undergraduate’s Journal

scan from the Scrapbook

Authorship and date are not entirely certain.

The Fortnightly Review

scan from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101026757201

The Eastbourne Chronicle

scans from https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1877-08-18/1877-09-22?newspapertitle=eastbourne%2bchronicle, partially also https://www.informedparent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1877-EASTBOURNE-CHRONICLE-debate-with-Lewis-Carroll-C-Dodgson.pdf

Vanity Fair

scans from https://books.google.de/books?id=yfFHAQAAMAAJ, https://books.google.de/books?id=-_FHAQAAMAAJ, https://books.google.de/books?id=KfJHAQAAMAAJ, https://books.google.de/books?id=AFFHAQAAMAAJ, https://books.google.de/books?id=TfJHAQAAMAAJ

The Doublets were managed by Choker (the editor), it is not clear how much of the content was actually written by Carroll. Here only those parts are reproduced, that were reprinted as book, as well as all the doublets. Several of these were also published as offprints.

The Standard

scans from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1879-01-01/1890-12-31?exactsearch=false&newspapertitle=london%2bevening%2bstandard&sortorder=2 (only three articles, even though all four should be there), text of “Eight Hours Movement” from Life and Letters, p. 293

The Educational Times

scans from https://archive.org/details/mathematicalque09millgoog/page/n94, https://archive.org/details/educationaltimes3941educ/page/245, https://archive.org/details/educationaltimes3941educ/page/246, https://archive.org/details/educationaltimes3941educ/page/280, https://archive.org/details/mathematicalque25millgoog/page/n33, https://archive.org/details/educationaltimes4243educ/page/n90, https://archive.org/details/educationaltimes4445educ/page/234, https://archive.org/details/mathematicalque64unkngoog/page/n96, https://archive.org/details/mathematicalque66unkngoog/page/n92, https://archive.org/details/educationaltimes50educ/page/390, https://archive.org/details/educationaltimes52educ/page/93 (not all issues are available), “Note on 7695” and “12650” are here from reprints in later issues, text of “Practical Hints on Teaching” and “Infinitesimal or Zero?” from Mathematical Pamphlets, items 26, 18

Most of these items were reprinted in Mathematical Questions and Solutions, from the “Educational Times”, some in expanded form. The questions also were reprinted with the solutions, some in abridged form.

The Monthly Packet

scans from https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket33unkngoog (1880 I), https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket26unkngoog (1880 II), https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket00colegoog (1881 I), https://books.google.com/books?id=xHE3AAAAMAAJUS-proxy (1881 II), https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket22unkngoog (1882 I), https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket00unkngoog (1882 II), https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket34unkngoog (1883 I), https://books.google.com/books?id=7nM3AAAAMAAJUS-proxy (1883 II), https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket36unkngoog (1884 II), https://archive.org/details/monthlypacket44unkngoog (1885 I)

Most, if not all, Knots, as well as several solutions, Lanrick of August 1881 and the note about “Shakespeare for Girls” were also published as offprints.

St. James’s Gazette

scans from http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?exactsearch=false&newspapertitle=st%20james%27s%20gazette (doesn’t include 1881), text of “The Purity of Election” from Political Pamphlets, item 14, text of “Traitors in the Camp” from Pamphlets: A Miscellany, item 28

About half of the contributions were reprinted (in a few cases with minor changes) in the weekly St. James’s Budget. The Purity of Election, Parliamentary Elections, and Children in Theatres were also published as offprints.

The Observer

text from Life and Letters, pp. 214–216

Supplement to the Guardian

text from Oxford Pamphlets, item 19 (introduction)

Knowledge

scan from https://books.google.de/books?id=K3dIAQAAMAAJ

The Court Circular

text from Pamphlets: Games, item 8c

Nature

scans from http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v35/n909/pdf/035517a0.pdf, https://www.nature.com/articles/056565f0 (also https://archive.org/download/paper-doi-10_1038_056565f0), https://www.nature.com/articles/057269a0 (also https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_057269a0)

The Theatre

scans from http://search.proquest.com/docview/7869458/fulltextPDF/63A94482ACB34EACPQ/9, http://search.proquest.com/docview/7849356/fulltextPDF/AB3CF7F82A4444CBPQ/15, http://search.proquest.com/docview/7868966/fulltextPDF/FC9BCE5018F24AA4PQ/5

Ad Lucem

text from Logic Pamphlets, item 22

Nineteenth Century

scan from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.21431

The Jabberwock

text from Life and Letters, pp. 276–277

The editors also published two letters, but I don’t think they were actually meant to be published (unlike the poem), so I do not include them in this collection. You can find them in Life and Letters.

Notes and Queries

scan from https://academic.oup.com/nq/article/s7-VIII/187/67/4440666

The Sunday Times

text from reprint in The Theatre, also Pamphlets: A Miscellany, item 15

The Lady

text from Pamphlets: Games, item 15 (reprint with some omissions), scan of first issue (as an offprint) in The Universe in a Handkerchief, pp. 145–147, for detailed description see also Lewis Carroll and the Press

The first two Syzygy issues were also published as offprints.

The Daily News

scan from https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1894-03-06/1894-03-06?NewspaperTitle=London%2BDaily%2BNews&IssueId=BL%2F0000051%2F18940306%2F&County=London%2C%20England

Mind

scans from https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/III/11/436/992008/A-LOGICAL-PARADOX, https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/IV/14/278/1046872/WHAT-THE-TORTOISE-SAID-TO-ACHILLES

Both articles were also published as offprints.

Chatterbox

scan from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2860916;view=thumb;seq=10

This text might not be by Carroll, though a very similar manuscript by him exists, see the Picture Book, p. 269.

St. Mary Magdalen Church Magazine

text from the Picture Book, pp. 340–344

Pamphlets, Leaflets, etc.

Note that larger pamphlets in most cases are treated as books, so this list only includes the smaller ones.

Unpublished Galley Proofs

Some works were meant for publication, but still weren’t published when Lewis Carroll died. The surviving galley proofs or preprints of these are listed here, see the next section for manuscripts.

For a detailed analysis of the authenticity of The Wasp in a Wig see https://archive.org/details/knightletterno7202lewi/page/14.

Manuscripts

Useful and Instructive Poetry

Written about 1845, first published 1954, text from http://www.kursivom.ru/%d1%80%d1%83%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bf%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%bd%d1%8b%d0%b5-%d0%b6%d1%83%d1%80%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%8b-%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%8e%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d1%8d%d1%80%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%bb%d0%b0/ (most of the content, including some images), https://books.google.com/books?id=GXyiAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA469 (A quotation from Shakespeare with slight improvements)

The Rectory Magazine

Written about 1848, first published 1975 (many parts already earlier), scan from http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15878coll30/id/129/rec/1#nav_top

The Rectory Umbrella

Written about 1850, first published 1932, scan from https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:10267096$1i#$

Mischmasch

Written 1855–1862 (including some older texts starting from 1853), first published 1932, text from http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/BibliographicResource_2000069294604.html

Other Manuscripts

For Alice’s Adventures under Ground see above among the printed books.

Poems from Letters, Inscriptions, etc.

Some poems from letters Carroll published himself. These are not listed above and their differences are not reproduced in the poems, but noted where available. These poems are Girt with a Boyish Garb (for Gertrude Chataway), A Charade (Four Riddles. No. III, for Marion Terry), Matilda Jane (for Catherine Holiday), A Game of Fives, and Puck Lost and Found. The first of the Puzzles from Wonderland can be found in his letters, too, but without changes. The poem Lines was published by Carroll, too, but since the manuscript variant is more prominent than the printed one, it is included above. Disillusionized, too, has such a variant, though it is not clear where it comes from.

Missing Works

The following texts are not included into this collection, either because I don’t know a source, or because they are out of scope, or because I just hadn’t have the time yet to add them.

Books

The following books are missing partially or completely, most of them because they are “uninteresting” mathematical works or by other authors:

From the following books some minor parts are missing:

From all books the table of contents, the index, the advertisements, and similar parts are missing.

Also some books have more than one edition, but not all are reproduced here. These books are: Euclid and his Modern Rivals, Euclid. Books I, II, The Principels of Parliamentary Representation, A New Theory of Parallels, Pillow-Problems, Symbolic Logic. Part I, Doublets. A Word-Puzzle

Magazines, etc.

All known contributions to magazines and newspapers are included. From the Doublets and the Syzygies some parts are missing, as well as some reprints with minor variations.

Pamphlets, etc.

From The Guildford Gazette Extraordinary several texts are omitted, from The Profits of Authorship only one paragraph is known.

The following pamphlets are missing completely:

Acland’s Tunny was written by Carroll, but refined by others. Apart from the introduction it is in Latin.

Photographs is a list of 159 photographs Carroll took, sorted alphabetically in three sections: Portraits, Size 6 by 5 (87, including 3 groups), Portraits, Size 7¼ by 6¼ (19, including 11 groups), and Miscellaneous, Size 7¼ by 6¼ (53 items, mostly buildings, also sculptures, skeletons, artistic portraits, and other photographs)

The three Arithmetic pamphlets are templates for arithmetical problems for examinations.

Examples in Arithmetic is a collection of arithmetical problems for examinations, compiled, but most probably not authored by Carroll.

On Catching Cold reprints three extracts from medical books.

Royal Cowper Theatre is the programme for a private theatrical by the Bowmans printed with much ornament and probably partially written by Carroll.

There are also some unrecorded and unreprinted cyclostyled collections of formulæ missing, as well as several examination papers (and many more lost).

Circulars

The circulars about proof sheets were sent together with these proofs, and ask for comments.

The circular about Senior Student’s biographies asked for details for a planned publication Senior Students.

The circular about the “Dramatic School of Art” was similar to the public Education for the Stage.

The circular about Shakespeare for Girls was similar to the public requests on that topic.

Carroll sent several circulars on behalf of friends and relatives, to help them in various matters.

Most of the Common Room Circulars invite to meetings and give their agenda. Many of the agenda items are listed in Curiosissima Curatoria.

The circular about counters asks for suggestions for the colours of the counters in the Game of Logic.

Several circulars offered copies of Carroll’s books to hospitals, etc. See also the announcement in the Times, and the offer at the end of A Fascinating Mental Recreation. Some earlier such circulars are lost.

The Stranger Circular is a letter (in two variants) intended to be sent to those who addressed C. L. Dodgson about books written by Lewis Carroll, protesting against this.

The circular about stationers asked about stationers who would sell the Wonderland Stamp-Case.

Second-Hand Books was sent to booksellers, asking them to sent catalogues only once a year, and a list of books Carroll wanted to purchase.

Unpublished Galley Proofs

From Symbolic Logic. Part II some parts are omitted. The following galley proofs are missing completely:

Both these proof sheets have many corrections by hand, which is why I don’t include them here.

For Limits of Circle-Squaring see the notes to the manuscript introduction.

The Rule for Finding Easter-Day is is based on Gauss’s, but modified to be calculated mentally, with hints on how to do so. It was intended for Original Games and Puzzles.

Manuscripts

From the Rectory Magazine and Mischmasch the contributions by other authors are omitted. From the manuscripts missing completely, the following are the most notable:

Ways and Means is a game played with specially created cards based on auctions and requiring buying and selling using counters, and is principally a word game involving strategy. A photograph of the cards is available at https://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/cld/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/P1170053-1536x756.jpeg on https://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/v-a/.

The first three Papers read in Hall are short essays (some considerably edited) on a Latin theme that have been read publicly. A fourth text, An prodesse plus quam nocere videntur Satirarum scriptures, from 1855 is probably lost. The last one is in Latin, and has been read publicly, too.

Most of the following texts are minor mathematical manuscripts.

On the introduction of a 4th co-ordinate into Algebraic Geometry and On the Continuity of Daylight are the manuscripts for speeches before the Ashmolean Scociety given on November 21, 1859, and November 26, 1860. The first one discusses briefly equations in 4-dimensional space (with some awkward method, but the correct result that two 3-dimensional spaces intersect in a plane, unless they are parallel; Carroll also suggests using the 4th dimension to analyse polarized light), the second one on the recurrent topic of “Where does the Day begin?”.

In his last will Carroll divides all his possessions among his brothers and sisters into equal shares. If any of them had died before him, his share would have been divided among his children. Executors were his brothers Wilfred and Edwin, witnesses T. Vere Bayne and A. Vernon Harcourt.

In the directions for his funeral Carroll asks for a simple and inexpensive funeral, without anything just for show. This also applies to the grave, he prefers a small plain head-stone.

Dress is a draft for an essay, probably intended for publication in The Theatre, on the decency or sinfullness of dress, especially concerning its amount. Carroll distinguishes between the intention of the dramatist and the actor and the effect on the spectator. I did not include it, because in some places it still is a very rough draft.

Direction-Theory, as applied to Pairs of Lines is the manuscript for an almost finished book, which could have become part 3 in the Curiosa Mathematica series.

Poems from Letters, Inscriptions, etc.

All these are available, but have only recently been published for the first time, so are probably still protected by copyright.

Lost Works

The works in this list might be lost, but as you never can know whether a long lost text is suddenly found, they are included here. Not all such works are included here, there are more mentioned in the diaries.

Richmond School Magazine

The Oxonian Advertiser

Copies of that newspaper still exist, but the poems are not identifiable.

Pamphlets, etc.

Manuscripts

There also were three more similar family magazines: The Rosebud, The Star, and The Will-O’-The-Wisp.

Further Reading

This section lists books and other resources for further reading. Partially these are sources for some of the texts, either the ones I used or alternative sources, partially they cover topics outside the scope of this collection, and partially they are listed just because they are easily available.

It is always worth to look for new additions to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%28lewis+carroll%29+OR+creator%3A%28charles+dodgson%29+OR+title%3A%28lewis+carroll%29&sort=-addeddate

Collections

I can especially recommend the Pamphlets series, which is a great ressource.

Biographies

Many biographies reprint some works of Carroll, even if I didn’t mention them above as a source. Since there are so many biographies, I cannot compare them all and list only the best, so do not interpret the inclusion or exclusion of a biography as a strong recommendation, with one exception: I do recommend The Mystery of Lewis Carroll.

Bibliographies

Apparently a new complete bibliography is currently being prepared, and drafts of the first part are available at https://community.adobe.com/havfw69955/attachments/havfw69955/indesign/571214/2/Section%20A%20Copyedited%2012_27.docx and https://community.adobe.com/havfw69955/attachments/havfw69955/indesign/576161/1/Section%20A.rtf. While the file format might not be what you prefer, the high qualitiy contents will be a compensation for that.

Letters and Diaries

When you are reading the diaries edited by Edward Wakeling, note that the errata are in volumes 9 and 10, so it is a good idea to have them ready from the beginning. See also https://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/volume-by-volume/ for a detailed overview.

Puzzles and Games

The Universe in a Handkerchief deserves a special mention for the many texts reprinted from the original source.

Photography

Wakeling’s list of Carroll’s photographs is also available at https://web.archive.org/web/20221206032347/https://www.thereallewiscarroll.com/Pages/Photographs.html.

Adaptions

Depending on which works about Lewis Carroll you already read, you might as well read Alice in Nurseryland, the annotations contain at least as much truth as some other books. And while you are at it, Sewell wrote some more books, and Evertype published many more. And if your are interested in more Alice games, see https://archive.org/details/knightletterno109309lewi/page/n33.

German Translations

If you prefer Latin, then you can also find two translations by Clive Harcourt Carruthers: Alicia in Terra Mirabili (1964, https://archive.org/details/bwb_KR-547-031) and Aliciae per Speculum Transitus (1966, https://archive.org/details/aliciae-per-speculum-transitus-through-the-looking-glass-and-what-alice-found-th).

Other Topics

Some of these include reprints of single texts, some other interesting content.

Online Catalogues

Some online catalogues listed here also provide access to digitized materials, but even in other cases the lists of available works are interesting enough, even if you probably wo’n’t see them in person yourself.

Other Online Resources

  1. This has nothing to do with Carroll, but I ca’n’t resist to mention that Euclid and his Modern Rivals is a collection of reviews, so reviews on that book are meta-reviews, which makes this appendix a meta-meta-review. Unfortunately, the short notice in Nature (June 25, 1885, https://www.nature.com/articles/032171a0, neither can I find any other reviews) ca’n’t be called “review”, otherwise it were a meta-meta-meta-review, and I could discuss it here in a meta-meta-meta-meta-review. ↩
  2. Note that Heiberg’s text of Euclid’s Elements was only published 1883 (English translation 1908), during Carroll’s time the edition by Simson was most commonly used. ↩
  3. see https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/00edb6d2-da75-4fc2-81c0-cb41f1d9e897 for original manuscript and related manuscripts ↩
  4. As far as I know the complete solution to this Double Acrostic has never been published. Here is my suggestion which I’m sure that it is correct with one exception: portmanteau, photography; pump, ostrich, Romeo, talent, motto, awning, Niebuhr (?), tea, eggcup, Aldrich, ugly ↩