Quoted in Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 4
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I lay in the parlour between two beds to keep me from being frozen to death, for as we keep open house the winds enter from every quarter, and are apt to sweep into bed to me.
— Charles Dodgson (bishop)
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About Charles Dodgson (bishop)
Charles Dodgson DD (1721/1722 – 21 January 1795) was bishop, first of Ossory and then of Elphin (both in Ireland). He was the grandfather of Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) and the great-grandfather of Lewis Carroll.
About Charles Dodgson (bishop)
Charles Dodgson DD (1721/1722 – 21 January 1795) was bishop, first of Ossory and then of Elphin (both in Ireland). He was the grandfather of Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) and the great-grandfather of Lewis Carroll.
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