Note 4 — LAYS OF SORROW
Reading edition
This was one of the best of the many “family” magazines with the editing of which young Dodgson used to amuse himself during his holidays. The whole of the matter was written in manuscript, in the neat and formal handwriting characteristic of him. He was about seventeen years old at the time he composed this poem, in which the talent for nonsense rhyming of the future creator of the inimitable “Jabberwocky” is already suggested.