''Mischmasch'' was a

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that

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicanism, Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice ...

wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family from 1855 to 1862. It is notable for containing the earliest version of the poem "

Jabberwocky "Jabberwocky" is a Nonsense verse, nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel ''Through the Looking-Glass'', the sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' ...

", which Carroll would later expand and publish in ''

Through the Looking-Glass ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, Christ Church, University of Oxford. I ...

''. It was collected into ''The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch'', published in 1932. In German, ''Mischmasch'' (masc.), pronounced , also refers to a disorderly mixture of things, see mish mash.

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