MT did meet Darwin at least once, 1879 I think;  in the UK, up at CD's
country place in the Lake District.  There is a fair amount written about
this MT-CD connection, such as in Baetzhold's very thorough book and also
the excellent one by Sherwood Cummings, two gems from the past.

-hb

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Peter Salwen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This is new to me, though it may be familiar to many of you already. It's
> from the New York Times of 1/8/1908:
>
> Darwin and Alice in the "Looking Glass."
>
> Col Higginson in The Atlantic Monthly.
>
>   I remember that at my first visit, in 1872, I was telling him of an
> address before the Philological Society by Dr. Andrew J. Ellis, in which he
> had quoted from Alice in the "Looking Glass" the description of what were
> called portmanteau words, into which various meanings were crammed. As I
> spoke, Mrs. Darwin glided quietly away, got the book, and looked up the
> passage. "Read it out, my dear," said her husband, and as she read the
> amusing page he laid his head back and laughed heartily.
>
>   Here was the man who had revolutionized the science of the world giving
> himself wholly to the enjoyment of Alice and her pretty nonsense. Akin to
> this was his hearty enjoyment of Mark Twain, who then had hardly begun to
> be regarded as above the Josh Billings grade of humorist, but Darwin was
> amazed that I had not read "The Jumping Frog," and said that he always kept
> it by his bedside for midnight amusement.
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