quoted from the article at link below:
"But like the existentially unstable characters who were to be created in the 20th century by those who claimed Carroll as a forebear — writers like André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov, who said he called him Lewis Carroll Carroll because he was “the first Humbert Humbert” — Carroll is usually just out of focus in the immense forest of biographical documents that surround him. In the Morgan’s exhibition, which includes the July 4, 1862, journal entry in which Carroll first mentions the fateful “expedition up the river to Godstow with the three Liddells,” the fantastical fictional characters often emerge seeming more real than their creator.""