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- ↑ "Chronology of Works of Lewis Carroll". Lewis Carroll Society. 3 October 2008. Archived from the original on 20 February 2009.
- ↑ Carroll, Lewis (1971). The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch (reprint ed.). Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-21345-3.
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