To have even known such a man as he was is an inestimable b… - Isa Bowman

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To have even known such a man as he was is an inestimable boon. To have been with him for so long as a child, to have known so intimately the man who above all others has understood childhood, is indeed a memory on which to look back with thanksgiving and with tears.

Isa Bowman

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Isa Bowman (1874 – 1958) was an actress, a close friend of Lewis Carroll and author of a memoir about his life, The Story of Lewis Carroll.

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He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdresser's, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too.

He would, when engaged in an animated conversation with a friend, talk quickly and well for a few minutes, and then suddenly and without any very apparent cause would begin to stutter so much, that it was often difficult to understand him.

He had a curiously womanish face, and, in direct contradiction to his real character, there seemed to be little strength in it.

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