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In his letter to Agnes Hull on March 25, 1881, Lewis Carroll wrote:

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My own Aggie,
(Though, when I think of all the pain you have given me, I feel inclined to put the syllables in another order and say, "My Agg own ie!") Of course I guessed at once, when I heard that you knew I had been delayed by the snow in getting from London to Oxford, that you had read the paragraph in The Times beginning "One of the passengers delayed on this occasion we need not name: it will be enough to tell our readers that he was the most distinguished man in England. Not only the tallest, the strongest, the most beautiful — he is all that, but that would be little. He is also the wisest, the most amiable, the most, etc., etc., etc.," and I was going to write to you to say how vexed I was that the Editor had made the description so plain, and that I had begged him not to let anyone know I had been in that train — but on second thoughts, I decided that the most truly modest course would be not to write about myself: so I say no more.
Do you know Tennyson's poem beginning:

It is the miller's daughter,
And she is grown so dear, so dear,
That I would be the jewel
That sparkles in her ear?

Well, you will be interested to hear that I have luckily found (among some old papers of Mr. Tennyson's) the original manuscript. It is very much torn: I will give you an exact copy over the page. He has altered it very much since. The first title was "How an Elderly Person took a Young Person to the Play, but could not get her way again." And he had begun it in quite a different metre:

Two went one day
To visit the play:
One came away:
The other would stay.

And then he seems to have changed his mind, and written it as I now give it to you.
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