Amity discovered these eyeglasses yesterday in the basement of Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science.
Oxford is full of echoes of two Charles Dodgsons — one the shy mathematician of Christ Church College who miraculously didn’t stutter when talking to children– the other (using the pseudonym Lewis Carroll) the child-beloved author of such brilliant nonsense as Alice in Wonderland.
The display case says these glasses were Lewis Carroll’s but surely the one of these two who needed glasses was Mr. Dodgson.