Dodgson wrote to Percy Fitzgerald from Oxford on October 18th 1872, expressing admiration for the latter's work 'Comedy and Dramatic Effect', and asking him whether he considered either of the Alice books to be suitable for dramatic performance: 'Unless you happen to possess them already, may I send you copies?' (Cf. The Letters of Lewis Carroll, pp. 180-81 (edited by Morton N. Cohen, New York, Oxford University Press, 1979).