TODAY: In 1932, Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (left), meets publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies (right, with his brothers George and Jack) the inspiration for Peter Pan, at a Lewis Carroll centenary exhibition in a London bookshop.
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