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To the Editor.Ìý —I became curiouser and curiouser as I read "Literary Neurologic Syndromes—Alice in Wonderland" by Rolak.¹ Although it is always nice to see recognition of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece,² I felt compelled to point out some factual errors in the article. In the text and in Fig 1, Rolak states that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland corresponds to a chess game. The book is, in fact, based on a playing card theme. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There³ is the book in which Alice finds herself in the midst of a chess game.In Rolak's Fig 4, the girl on the left is identified as Alice when, in fact, Alice is the girl on the right.By a curious coincidence, an excellent account of Dodgson and of Alice appears in the issue of National Geographic⁴ published in the same month as the Archives' article.