The Times Online has a story about the lost chapter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
From the piece...
A letter to Lewis Carroll from his celebrated illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, that has come up for sale sheds new light on the relationship between the two men and reveals how blunt advice from the older, more established artist helped to change the face of a children’s classic.
The letter, which is auctioned today, is one of the few original examples of correspondence to survive between the stammering Cheshire clergyman, Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, and Tenniel, the half-blind artist who would go on to gain a knighthood for his 50-year stint as political cartoonist for Punch and immortality for his much-loved illustrations of Cheshire cats and hookah-pipe-smoking caterpillars. Dated July 1, 1870, the letter refers to the “lost chapter” of Through the Looking Glass, which describes an encounter between Alice and a grumpy “wasp in a wig”.
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