EIGHT OR NINE

WISE WORDS
ABOUT

ettsr-lBritlpi

BY

LEWIS CARROLL

EMBERLIN AND SON

4,

MAGDALEN STREET

OXFORD

FIRST PUBLISHED
1890.

Qon{en{s-

Page.

On Stamp-Cases

How

to

begin a Letter

How

to

go on with a Letter

12

How

to

end a Letter

21

On

registering Correspondence

23

On

I.

Some American
in

this

species

writer has said " the snakes

may

district

the

Stamp-Cases,
be

divided

The same

venomous."

ple applies here.

into

one

princi-

Postage-Stamp-Cases

may

be divided into one species, the " Wonderland."

Imitations of

no doubt

but they cannot include the two

Pictorial Surprises,

You

soon appear,

will

it

don't see

which are copyright.

why

call

them

'

Surprises

'

Well, take the Case in your left-hand, and

regard

it

attentively.

the Duchess's
bination,
in the

by

book.)

forefinger,

Baby
the

You

see Alice nursing

(An entirely new com-

way

it

doesn't

occur

Now, with your right thumb and

lay hold

of the

little

book, and

suddenly pull
into

a Pig

why,

The Baby has turned

out.

it

If that

suppose you wouldn't be surprised

own Mother-in-law

your

surprise you,

doesn't

suddenly

if

turned

Gyroscope

into a

This Case

is 7iot

intended to carry about in

Far from

your pocket.

People seldom

it.

want any other Stamps, on an emergency,

than

Penny-Stamps

Stamps

for

edging

for

cut

fingers

and

cautiously

Sixpenny-

Letters,

Telegrams, and a

sticking-plaster,

washings,

for

(it

of Stamp-

bit

makes

capital

will stand three or four

conducted)

and

all

these are easily carried in a purse or pocket-

book.

No,

this

envelope-case,

or

writing-materials.

is

meant

to

wherever you

haunt your
keep your

What made me

invent

it

was the constantly wanting Stamps of other

values, for foreign Letters, Parcel Post, &c.,

and finding

it

very bothersome to get at the

kind

wanted

possessed a "

Since

a hurry.

in

Wonderland Stamp Case

has been bright and peaceful,

used no other.
dress uses

arrange the

hold

off,

easily,

always be

one by one
to

to

some-

in,

making them lean

left

alternately

them

to

thus

a free corner to

so as to take

them apt

them

before putting

6,

and to the

will

hold 6 stamps,

v^ill

would recommend you

thing like a bouquet,

there

have

no other.

comfortably.

right

Life

",

believe the Queen's laun-

Each of the pockets

the

and

have

get

out, quickly

and

otherwise you will find

come out two

or

three

at

time.

According to my experience, the

and

Stamps

IS.

though

have

are

constantly to

the other pockets.

with mine, you

hardly

If

may

ever

5^., 9^.,

wanted,

replenish

all

your experience agrees

find

it

convenient to

keep only a couple

kinds, in

the

is,

(say) of

pocket,

each of these 3
and to fill the

other 2 pockets with extra id. stamps.

How

2.

to begin

If the Letter is to

a Letter,

be in answer to another,

begin by getting out that other letter and

reading

through,

it

in

order to refresh your

memory,

as to

and as

your correspondent's present address

to

what

it is

you have

to answer,

(otherwise you will be sending your letter to

his regular address in

London, though he has

been careful

in writing to give

quay address

in full).

Next, Address and Stamp

''What!

you

his Tor-

the Envelope.

Before writing the Z^^^^r

.-^

Most

'^

And I'll tell you what will happen

if you don't.
You will go on writing till the
certainly.

last

moment, and

last

sentence,

'

time's up

'

the middle

just in

you

will

of the

become aware

Then comes

that

the hurried wind-

lO

up

wildly-scrawled

the

hastily-fastened envelope,

the

in

glyphic

post

the

forgotten

the

which comes open

address,

mere

hiero-

discovery that you've

horrible

Stamp-Case

your

replenish

to

the

signature

the frantic appeal, to every one in the house,

lend you

to

Stamp

to the Post Office,

ing,

just

finally,

the

week

afterwards,

from

the

perience

new

own

speak

when

address,

hot and

gasp-

closed

the

return

his

of

Office,

It

is

from

in f2cll,

letter

at

an aggrabitter

a friend, staying at

heads

and

address,

of the note-sheet.

thing

rush

Dead-Letter

illegible "

Next, put your

headlong

box has

the

marked " address

vating

arriving,

after

Letter,

the top

the

'*

ex-

some

Dover,"

simply, assuming that you can get the rest

of the address from his previous letter, which

perhaps you have destroyed.

II

Next, put the date in full.

aggravating
afterwards,
to find

when you

thing,
to

It

arrange a

them dated

is

",

years

wish,

of letters,

series

" Feb. 17

another

" Aug. 2

",

without any year to guide you as to which

comes

first.

(N.B.

this

07tly

put
'*

And

never, never, dear

remark

addressed

to

ladies

no man would ever do such a

thing),

is

Wednesday ", simply, as

That way madness lies.^''

'*

Madam

the date

12

How to go on with

3Here

Rule

golden

is

Write

legibly.

human

race

a Letter,
begin

to

The average temper

with.
of the

would be perceptibly sweetened,

great

deal of the bad writing in the world

comes

obeyed

everybody

if

this

Rule!

Of course

simply from writing too quickly.

you

reply,

good

'^

do

it

object, no doubt

to

Ids

time as valuable as yours

at

your friend's expense

used to receive

and very
in

it

letters

interesting

one of the most

invented.

It

it

about in

my

Years ago,

written

too

hands

atrocious

generally

Isn't

from a friend

letters

week to read one of his

carry

very

but what right have

you

do

to save time ".

took
letters

me
!

ever

about
I

used to

pocket, and take

it

out

13
at leisure times, to

which composed

and

positions,

would

flash

down

the

several

holding

it

upon me, when

under

English

it

riddles

in different

at

I
it

at

scrawl

once wrote
and,

till

when

had been thus guessed, the context

whole

ciphered.

series
If

their letters

one's

all

sincerely ".

was

de-

wrote Hke

friends

places

specially,

and

to

names of

?nost specially to

got a letter once, containing

some Russian names, written

in

at last

entirely spent in reading

applies,

foreign names.

scramble

till

This Rule
or

others,

of hieroglyphics

would be

that. Life

people

the

distances,

different

at

would help one with the

the

over

meaning of some hopeless

the

last

puzzle

in the

same hasty

which people often write " yours

The

help in the least

context,
:

of course,

didn't

and one spelling was just

as likely as another, so far as /

knew

it

was

necessary to write and

couldn't read any of

My

second Rule

my

tell

them

The

last

letter.

is

your

Write with the

letter

make any remarks

arrangement
for

want

reader,

own

and then

hastily

tions

a postscript.

more

in

his questions,

to

Then

say yourself.

than

to

invaluable

answer your

likely to enjoy

and

more courteous, and

is

the

with your

letter

with,

his letter suggests.

go on to what you

pleasanter

begiii

Answer

open before you.

This

having

for not

best subject, to

friend's

more than a

fill

page and a half with apologies

written sooner

don't

is,

friend that

Your

fill

remarks,

friend's

friend

your wit, after

the

ques-

much
his own
is

anxiety for information has been satisfied.

In referring to
said in his letter,
ivords,

and not

anything your friend has

it is

best to quote the exact

to give

summary

of

them

15

words.

in yotir

A^s impression,

of

what

has said, expressed in A^s words, will never

convey
This

to

the

specially necessary

is

own words.
when some point

meaning of

his

has arisen as to which the two correspondents

do not quite
opening

for

mistaken

was not

There ought

ag^ree.

to be

no

such writing as ''You are quite

in thinking

in the least

my

so-and-so.

said

It

meaning, &c., &c.",

which tends to make a correspondence

last

for a lifetime.

A
for

few more Rules

may

correspondence that

become

One

be given here,

fitly

has

unfortunately

controversial.
is,

don^t repeat yourself.

you have said your

say, fully

When

and

once

clearly,

on

a certain point, and have failed to convince

your friend, drop that subject

arguments,
his

all

to repeat

your

over again, will simply lead to

doing the same

and so you

will

go on.

i6

Did you

Decimal.

Circulating

like a

ever

know a Circulating Decimal come to an end ?

Another Rule is, when you have written
a

your
felt

you

that

letter

friend,

to so express yourself,

it

fancy

Then read

it

addressed

taking out a

and putting

lot

in

it

bably

lead

you

copy of

it.

to

over again,

palatable dish of

still

feel

further

There

is

best
that

"

little
I

am

Far

my

recollection

better to

said

If,

write

to

will pro-

it

keep

months

use,

almost sure

never expressed myself as you say

best of

it

controversy,

very

afterwards, in pleading
I

all

honey instead, and thus mak-

when you have done your

inoffensively,

till

This will

yourself.

to

aside

it

of the vinegar and pepper,

much more

put

over again, and

it

lead to your writing

often

possibly irritate

however necessary you may have

the next day.

ing

may

feel

to the

so-and-so

be able to write "

did

".

nut

17

myself so

express
I

words

the

are

these

used."

My

Rule

fifth

is,

makes

your friend

if

severe remark, either

leave

unnoticed, or

it

make your reply distinctly less severe and

if he makes a friendly remark, tending towards making up the little difference that
:

'

'

has arisen between you,

more

distinctly

friendly.

your reply be

let

quarrel, each party declined to

three-eighths of the
friends,

the

in

If,

way, and

picking

go more than

making

in

if,

each was ready to go five-eighths of

way why,

there

would be more recon-

than quarrels

ciliations

Irishman's

remonstrance

Which

is

his

to

like

the

gad-about

daughter

" Shure,

You go

out three times, for wanst that you

come

My

in

you're always goin' out

"

sixth

Rule (and

my

last

controversial correspondence)

remark about

is,

donH

try to

i8

How many

have the last word!

versy would be

nipped

was anxious

let

word

to

in

you leave unuttered

the bud,

each

if

the other have the last

Never mind how

a contro-

telling a rejoinder

never mind your friend's

supposing that you are silent from lack of

anything to say
as

ber

'

speech

(N.B.

If

is

wonH get
to

jest,

this

the last

be

Rule

word

is

if it

is,

and your

superfluous

sure you

should ever occur

but taken as earnest,

to

Suppose,

the
for

breaking-off
instance,

your

enough

exaggerate

consequences.

you

!)

the jesting obvious

serious

lead

remem-

to write, jestingly, in dispraise of

friend,

make

silvern, but silence is golden'!

seventh Rule

you

the thing drop, as soon

you are a gentleman,

friend a lady,

My

let

possible without discourtesy

is

it

word spoken

may

in

lead to very

have known
of

to

you wish

it

to

friendship.
to

remind

19

you

your friend of a sovereign

have

him, which he has forgotten to repay

might
as

it,

mean the

quite

you seem

memory

for

to

way of putting it.

wrote *' Long observation

my

But, suppose you

I'll

of your career, as

and a burglar, has convinced

one lingering hope,

that sovereign
or

lent you,

summons

yer

'

eighth Rule.
"

enclose

writing for a

document
envelope.

up,

indeed

he took that as

When
cheque

you say,
for

",

enclose John's letter for you to see

off

Pay

meant

seriously

letter,

if

'

would

he

"

for recovering

to say

is

be a matter-of-fact friend

My

would

he took offence

if

at that

that

mention

yet there

be nothing to wonder at

me

you

have a conveniently bad

debts", in jest

a pickpocket

"

words

lent

referred

moment
to

go

and

put

your

in

or
",

"

leave

and get the

it

into

the

Otherwise, you are pretty certain

20
to find

My

lying about, after the Post has gone

it

When

ninth Rule.

you get

to the

end

of a note-sheet, and find you have more to

say,

take another

of paper

piece

whatever you do, don't cross

the old proverb

reading

quiringly.

"

you say, en-

Well, not so veiy

must confess.

In fact, I'm afraid

while writing this paragraph

it

you know, 'old'

think

Remember

old?"

*^

invented

Still,

How

Cross-writing makes cross

" The old proverb

'.

ancient,

whole

may demand

sheet, or a scrap, as the case

but,

is

a comparative term.

would be

you

quite

justified

in

addressing a chicken, just out of the shell,

as " Old boy

chicken, that

was only

",

when compared with another

half-out

21

How

4-

end a Lette7\

to

whether to end

If doubtful

with

'yours most

faithfully', or 'yours truly', or

truly

',

&c.

varieties, before

and

letter,

as friendly

more

A
but

as his
it

Postscript
is

yours affection-

your correspondent's

not

in

fact,

even

do no harm

will

if

at

last

least

a shade

a very useful invention

is

meant

(as

pose) to contain the

it

'

dozen

least

make your winding-up

friendly,

it

at

you reach

to

refer

ately'),

are

(there

yours

'

so

many

ladies sup-

real gist of the letter

serves rather to throw into the shade any

little

matter

about.

we do

not wish to

make

a fuss

For example, your friend had pro-

mised to execute a commission

town, but forgot

it,

for

you

in

thereby putting you to

22

inconvenience

great

and he now writes

apologize for his negligence.

cruel,

and needlessly crushing,

main subject of your

gracefully

comes

it

omitted that

deny that

time

at the

did put

but

having

town.

won't

plans out a

little,

'

now.

those

who

often
live

mustn't throw stones', you

"

take your letters to the Post,

carry them in your hand.

your pocket you

walk

Don't

When you
in

make it the
much more

about

right

and

would be

" P.S.

in

my
all

it's

forget things, myself

in glass-houses,

thus

matter

little

it

in

to

How

reply.

any more

yourself

distress

know

It

to

(I

If

will take a

you put them

long country-

speak from experience), passing the

Post-Office twice, going and returning, and,

when you

get home, will find

your pocket.

them

still

in

23

On

registering Corres-

pondence.
Let

me recommend you

and Sent.

of Letters Received

one

for

many

greatest

my

secures

service,

it

enables

may have been

destroyed

most valuable feature of

me

it

me

to refer, for

the

all,

Letters

actual

long
if

ago

any

and,

difficulty

years afterwards, in connection with

half-forgotten
to

guidance, to the details of previous

though

of the

it

many ways

in

correspondence,

arises,

have kept

answering Letters, how^ever long

they have to wait

my own

and have found

years,

possible

keep a record

to

correspondence,

say, with confidence, "

you that he was

it

enables

did not

an invaluable servant

tell

in

24

way
much

every

too

What

',

and that you couldnH

I

'.

said

was

many ways, but

So,

if

hold
I

have a precis of
'

he

is

me

will

responsible for

now

it

my

him

letter.

a valuable servant in

don't trust

he's cheated you,

trust

'

him too much

'.

you really must not

"
!

give you a few simple Rules for

making, and keeping, a Letter-Register.

Get a blank book, containing

leaves, about 4 inches

wide and 7 high.

should be well fastened into

will

its

cover, as

It
it

have to be opened and shut hundreds of

times.

Have

a line ruled, in red ink,

each margin of every page, an inch

edge

200

(say)

(the

contain a

down

off the

margin should be wide enough to

number of

5 digits, easily

man-

age with a I inch margin

but, unless you
write very small you will find an inch more
:

comfortable).

Write a precis of each Letter, received or

25
sent,

chronological order.

in

of a

'

received

hand edge

'

Let the entry

Letter reach from the

left-

the right-hand marginal line

to

and the entry of a

'

sent

'

Letter from the

left-hand marginal line to the right-hand edge.

Thus the two kinds

will be quite distinct,

you can easily hunt through the

and

received

'

'

Letters by themselves, without being bothered

with the

'

sent

'

Letters

and

vice versa.

Use the right-hand pages only

you come

the end

to

upside-down,

and

and,

when

of the book, turn

begin

at

the

other end,

You

still

using right-hand pages.

this

much more comfortable than

it

will

find

using

left-

hand pages.

You

will find

it

convenient to write, at the

top of every sheet of a

Register-Number
I

will

pages

of

now

my

'

received

'

Letter, its

in full.

give

few

(ideal)

Letter-Register, and

specimen

make

26

few remarks on them

you
one

wilt

find

for yourself.

it

after

which

easy enough

to

think

manage

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begin each page by putting, at the top

left-hand

am

entry-number

next

corner, the

going to use, in full (the

last 3 digits of

each entry-number are enough afterwards)

and

put the date of the year, at the top, in

the centre.
I

begin each entry with the last 3 digits of

the entry-number, enclosed in an oval (this

is

to reproduce

difficult

in

print, so

put round-parentheses here).

Jirst entry in

month and
*do.'

Next,

symbol

gram

'

for

(see

the entry
parcel

'

for the

put the day of the

week

afterwards,

the month-day,

'

is

(see

not a letter,

till

name

(indicated here

by

Nos. 243, 245) or

Nos. 230, 231) as the case

Next, the

If

for

Then,

it

do not repeat the week-day.

if

the day of the

enough

is

changes

each page,

have

put a
^

tele-

may

be.

of the person, underlined

italics).

an entry needs special further attention,

32
I

put

attended

to, I

paid ;

to be

in

when

and,

it

has been

in the appropriate

fill

No. 218,

e.g. in

end

at the

showed that the

it

symbol,
bill

had

No. 222, that an answer was

really needed (the

'

'

means

'

attended to

')

in

No. 234, that I owed the old lady a visit

No. 235, that the item had to be entered

in

my

in

account book

not forget to write

in

in

No. 236, that

No.

dress had to be entered in

in

must

239, that the ad-

my

address-book

No. 245, that the book had to be returned,

I give each entry the space of 2 lines, whe-

ther

it

fills

them

room

for references.

page

or

not,

in

order to have

And, at the foot of each

leave 2 or 3 lines blank (often useful

afterwards for entering omitted Letters) and

miss one or 2 numbers before

begin the

next page.

At any odd moments of leisure,

make up'

the entry-book, in various ways, as follows:

33
(i)

draw

end of the

'

a second line, at the right-hand

received

hand end of the

'

entries,

sent

'

'

and

at the left-

This

entries.

usually do pretty well 'up to date'.

Register the

here

thin,
(2)

distinguish

read over the names

comes

'

there

first

foot-reference

do not keep

till

till

already

are

work back

'

chronological

in

(see Nos. 217, 225).

this 'up-to-date', but leave

or

4
till

pages

to

come among

are all supplied with

I

and

then link the two entries together, by giving

order, a

first

entry,

last

recognise one as having occurred

the one, that

thick.

Beginning with the

going backwards,
I

them by making the

and the second

my

second blue

line is red, the

first

In

'

if

done.

entries that

foot-references

once more glance through the

pages, to see

be

it

when

',

last

few

there are any entries not yet

supplied with head-references

their

prede-

34

may need

cessors

entry

a special

search.

If

an

connected, in subject, with another

is

under a different name,

link

them by

cross-

references, distinguished from the head-

and

by being written further from

marginal line (see No. 229). When 2

foot-references
the

consecutive entries have the same name, and

are both of the
or both

243)

'

if

sent')

same kind
I

(i.e.

both

'

received

'

bracket them (see Nos. 242,

of different kinds,

link

them with

the symbol used for Nos. 219, 220.

(3)

Beginning

at the earliest entry not yet

done with, and going forwards,

every entry that has
reference,

and

is

cross out

got a head- and

it

(see

Nos. 221, 223,

Thus, wherever a break occurs

extra line,

it

shows there

needing attention.
thing like

foot-

done with, by continuing

the extra line through

225).

up to date

is

some matter

do not keep
',

in this

but leave

it

still

this

any-

till

there

35
are 30 or 40 pages to look through at a time.

When

the

first

page

in the

completely crossed out,

page

foot of the

pages

2,

put a

to indicate this

part of the 'making up',

thus

is

mark

at the

and so with

Hence, whenever

&c.

3,

volume

do

this

need not begin at

the beginning of the volume, but only at the

page that has not got

earliest

All

looks

this

stated at

full

very

length

this

mark.

but you will

when

complicated,

find

it

when you have had a little

and will come to regard the mak-

perfectly simple,
practice,

ing-up

'

'

as a pleasant occupation for a rainy

day, or at any time that you feel disinclined

for

more severe mental work.

of Whist,
*'

When

in doubt,

to do,

Game

Hoyle gives us one golden Rule,

win the

Rule admirable for real

what

In the

'

make-up

'

trick "

when

find that
in

doubt

life

my

Letter-Register

THE END.

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