English author, poet, mathematician and photographer Charles Dodgson was born #OTD in 1832. Within the academic discipline of mathematics, Dodgson worked primarily in the fields of geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, and recreational mathematics, producing nearly a dozen books under his real name. To promote letter writing, Dodgson invented "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case" in 1889.
Well, if we're going to talk about Dodgson on letter writing and the Wonderland stamp case, the we simply cannot omit:
C. Dodgson, "Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing", 1890.
Dodgson being Dodgson, it also contains what he apparently thought to be relevant advice upon the situation when one's mother-in-law turns into a gyroscope. (Dodgson not being married, this must be regarded as rather theoretical, not practical, advice.)
"You evidently do not suffer from quotation-hunger as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from."
The Letters of Lewis Carroll
~Lewis Carroll (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898)
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