If I could do anything that I wanted to, it would probably to find a way to travel back in time and see how things were, meet people who existed in the past etc.

So many things that happened, no one knows about now. Which is strange if you think about how much we're able to know about pretty much ANYONE nowadays. And everything today is documented.

In Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll she notes that not much is known about him simply because it either wasn't written down, and if it was, then the record was lost. Several of his diaries from his teenage years are noted as having "disappeared." UGH.If only I could go back and figure out things and witness what life was like for Lewis Carroll. Woolf does her best to make assumptions based on what she has, so I've got a decent picture of what his family like.

Lewis Carroll was the eldest son and third child of his parents' eleven. He and his siblings were very close. Three of them got married, two of those were boys. His father worked as a clergyman and did the best he could to properly support his family. Carroll loved his mother and was not quite fond of nurses. At school it was likely that he was bullied, because bullying went on in public schools like Rugby where he attended. And it was only at last minute when the professors intervened. He did not like his time at Rugby, but enjoyed learning and was thought of highly by his teachers. But other than that there's not much that Woolf has managed to find out.

She did surprise me though. She found his bank account records, which I thought was ingenious. That definitely points her in a direction...

Mr. Patton every once in a while will give us an excerpt from some book and we read them and it's interesting because usually it's usually one little occurrence that happened to no one special, but based on what happened to that person or in that occurrence is dependent on what the historian who wrote it used as information. And reading this biography reminds me a lot of those articles.