Fun Fact - Did you know there’s a chapter missing from the published version of The Looking Glass?  Apparently, at the end of the chapter about the White Knight, Alice was to have grabbed a woman’s wig instead of the goat’s beard, which would have led to the missing chapter (called A Wasp in a Wig).

Here’s the letter to Carroll from his publisher about it, taken from an article on Lenny’s Alice In Wonderland site ( in my blogroll):

“My Dear Dodgson:
I think that when the jump occurs in the railway scene you might very well make Alice lay hold of the goat’s beard as being the object nearest to her hand – instead of the old lady’s hair. The jerk would actually throw them together.

Don’t think me brutal, but I am bound to say that the ‘wasp’ chapter does not interest me in the least, and I can’t see my way to a picture. If you want to shorten the book, I can’t help thinking – with all submission – that this is your opportunity.
In an agony of haste,
             Yours sincerely,
                               J. Tenniel”

(source: Gardner, M., The Annotated Alice, 1998, p.221)