Part 5 — LETTERS
Reading edition
LEWIS CARROLL TO MISS STANDEN
THE CHESTNUTS, GUILFORD
August 22, 1869 My dear Isabel:
[Footnote: Little Miss Isabel Standen, whom Carroll had just met in a park in Reading.]
Though I have been acquainted with you only fifteen minutes, yet, as there is no one else in Reading I have known so long, I hope you will not mind my writing to you…. A friend of mine, called Mr. Lewis Carroll, tells me he means to send you a book. He is a very dear friend of mine. I have known him all my life (we are the same age) and have never left him. Of course he was with me in the Gardens, not a yard off, even while I was drawing those puzzles for you. I wonder if you saw him.
Your fifteen-minute friend,