Was this the inspiration behind The Walrus and the Carpenter?

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Katie Adie talks to Ian Skelly about her childhood fascination with a "gigantic" stuffed walrus and discusses the rumour that it influenced Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter. Kate Adie appears as Ian Skelly’s guest on Radio 3’s Essential Classics every day this week. Click through to the episode to hear more. This image (from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums) from 1913 shows a group of blind children feeling the stuffed walrus at Sunderland Museum, so they can 'see' what it looks like.