On the lost art of letter writing
Open book
Lewis Carroll once sent the following Double Acrostic to Edith Argles as a joke about her sister Dolly:
I saw a child: even if blind,
I could have seen she was not kind. Cruel
“ My child,” said I, “don’t make that noise!
Here, choose among this heap of toys.” Dolly
She said “I’ve tumbled in the river:
And that’s what makes me shake and shiver.” C ol D
“And what’s your name, my child?” said I.
"It’s Juliet, sir,” she made reply. R ome O
“You know,” said she, “I hates my pa—
Never says nothing to my ma” — U nfilia L
“My child,” I cried, “you make me sad.
How can you be so very bad?” E vi L
At which she laughed in such a way,
I lost my hearing from that day. L oudl Y
