ALS signed “C. L. Dodgson,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, March 29, 1868. Handwritten letter to Dolly Argles, a 12-year-old female friend, playfully inquiring about the threats he might encounter while en route to see her. In full: "I wonder if you can be trusted with a message? I am inclined to think you can—so this is it. Will you tell your Papa I am very much obliged to him for so kindly wishing me to come down to Peterborough, and I think perhaps I could manage to do so, for a day or two, I am obliged to stay here most of this week, as pro-proctor, and that breaks up my vacation, which would have been a whole month, into two crumbs of a week or so each. I shall very likely go to London at the end of this week, or the beginning of the next, so (if you'd really like it, you know—because of course I wouldn't come if you'd rather not) I might come down to Peterborough on the Tuesday or Wednesday. I should like to know how far you are from the railway—and whether the road is dangerous—any wolves, for instance? But perhaps I had better travel armed as usual, with sword & pistols, & then I shall be ready for anything that may happen." In fine condition.
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