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On December 23, 1897, Carroll travelled down to Guildford to join his family for the Christmas holidays. But this was not to be a festive season. On January 5, he learned that his brother-in-law had suddenly died, and by then he had himself come down with a fever and chest cold. Today we would deal with the symptoms routinely, with antibiotics, but over eighty years ago, bronchial infections were serious, and sometimes fatal. Carroll’s condition worsened, and on January 14, thirteen days before his sixty-sixth birthday, he died of pneumonia.
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Cohen, M.N. (1989). Death. In: Cohen, M.N. (eds) The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20350-5_6
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