Beloved British author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” one page, 4 x 6, June 20, 1880. Letter written to his young friend Mabel Burton, "My dear Mab," in full: "Why didn't you answer my question about going to the Pictures in the early morning? If I were to call for you on Saturday morning, what answer should I get? 'Miss Mabel is fast asleep and snowing'—'What! At half past seven?' 'Oh, she always sleeps till nine.'" In fine condition.
Three years earlier, the author began spending his summers by the sea at Eastbourne in the United Kingdom, where he encountered 8-year-old Mabel Amy Burton, a girl he described in his diary as being 'entirely charming, and without an atom of shyness.' The friendship continued, as evidenced by this 1880 letter, with Dodgson desiring to entertain his young friend. A playful letter boasting some imagined dialogue from the creative Alice author.
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