I would suggest the letter from Dodson to Alices parent suggest other
wise.
this one?
The letter was written in his rooms at Christ Church College in February
1877, when he was 43 and Alice was 25.
Although the name of the addressee has been scribbled out it appears to
begin 'Dear Miss Liddell'.
Written in his customary violet ink, it reads: 'Thank you for the sight of
the pretty photographs, but don't keep the child in for me - I am
fearfully busy - and what could Miss Lloyd have been thinking of to say
such things of me?
'She must have taken some remark of mine about liking children and have said
to herself for "some" read "all", for "girls" read "boys" and for "ten" read
"two" - such a method of exaggeration is wholly unfounded, and yet she
professes to be an admirer of Dr Liddon. Believe me.' It is signed 'Yours
very truly, C L Dodgson.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell suggests the situation was
cryptic.
Given he was an outspoken critic of a popular new form of mathematics, I
imagine his detractors of the day would have sought any means to destroy
him - yet not much seemed to surface if anything at all - there doesn't seem
to be any record of it.
At the end of it all, the guy was a master photographer, one of the best
that lived.
