LONDON, ENGLAND.- The Art Fund has offered a grant of $143,591 dollars to the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of Photography to try to save the collection of photographs by Lewis Carroll of Alice Liddell (the original Alice in Wonderland) and her family. The nine photographs were gifts from Carroll to Alice, and were recently sold by her descendants to a private collector in the United States, for around $717,887 dollars. The museums have two months to raise the purchase price before the export ban expires. David Barrie, director of the Art Fund, stated: "This is a remarkable and exceptional collection that confirms Lewis Carroll's outstanding gifts as a photographer as well as documenting a unique moment in English literary history."