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The Red Shift Code - Lewis Carroll's Alphabet Cipher

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N.B. If this table is lost, it can easily be written out from memory, by observing that the first symbol in each column is the same as the letter naming the column, and that they are continued downwards in alphabetical order. Of course it would only be necessary to write out the particular columns required by the key-word: such a paper, however, should not be preserved, as it would afford means for discovering the key-word.¹

Notes
1: John Fisher (editor): The Magic of Lewis Carroll p51 (Penguin Books, 1975)

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