The Russian Journal II: A Record Kept by Henry Parry Liddon of a Tour Taken with C. L. Dodgson in the Summer of 1867

Lewis Carroll’s journal of his trip with Henry Parry Liddon (1829–1890) was first published by Morris L. Parrish in 1928 under the title Tour in 1867. Liddon’s own diary of the trip remained unpublished until it was issued by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. The purpose of the trip on Liddon’s part was to convey a quasi-ecumenical overture from the English Church to the Russian Orthodox Church. Liddon at that time had been appointed him prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral. The diary entry for August 12 (Monday), for example, begins: “Expedition to Troitska with Bishop Leonide of Moscow. Up at 5 o’clock, breakfast 5:30, left Hotel at 6. Met Bishop Leonide at the Station.” Read in conjunction with Carroll’s narrative, the difference between the two friends and Christ Church alumni becomes clear. An appendix contains Carroll’s poem “A Russian’s Day in England.”