He would, when engaged in an animated conversation with a f… - Isa Bowman

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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.

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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