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LEWIS CARROLL
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an undeniable dignity and pathos in his more serious verses. He gave a copy to Mr. Justice Denman, with whom he afterwards came to be

Justice Denman.

(From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.)

very well acquainted, and who appreciated the gift highly. "I did not lay down the book," he wrote, "until I had read them [the poems]