#OTD in 1862.
Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) extemporises a story for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowing trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow. The story becomes a manuscript titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground and is published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Alice's Adventures Under Ground at PG (1886):
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002
1907 edition:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/28885
1916 edition:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19033
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