Last Years

Abstract

On January 27, 1892, Carroll turned sixty. He had been reasonably healthy all his life, and even in his sixties one detects no obvious decline of physical or mental powers. In fact, a quiet contentment overtook him, and the only anxiety appears in his concern for completing the books he was writing. Even though he speaks of himself as an old man, his interest in his young friends continues unabated—with a difference, however, for Carroll grows interested in more mature women as he himself grows older, and he comes to desire the companionship of some of the mothers of his girl friends even above that of their daughters.