Sylvie and Bruno - Classic Reprint Author:Lewis Carroll PREFACE. ONE little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, at p. 77, was drawn by ' Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) 'wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone. The descriptions, at pp. 386, 387, of Sunday as spent by children of the la... more »st generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend. The Chapters, headed ' Fairy Sylvic ' and ' Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for ' Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing. It was in 1874, T believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story. As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me-who knows how?-with a transitory
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