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Chapters from My Autobiography

CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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I do not recall Ainsworth.

By my count, Susy mentions fourteen men.

They are all dead except Sir Charles Dilke.
We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"-- but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the stillest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus." Dr.Macdonald and several other lively talkers were present, and the talk went briskly on for a couple of hours, but Carroll sat still all the while except that now and then he answered a question.
His answers were brief.

I do not remember that he elaborated any of them.
At a dinner at Smalley's we met Herbert Spencer.

At a large luncheon party at Lord Houghton's we met Sir Arthur Helps, who was a celebrity of world-wide fame at the time, but is quite forgotten now.


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