Cooke Telescope Tales - Did Lewis Carroll use a Cooke telescope?

 St. Andrew the Apostle Naunton, Cheltenham

 Edward Litton, appointed rector in 1860, was a noted writer on theology and a friend of Revd Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) who is said to have stayed several times at the rectory.

He ordered a telescope from Thomas Cooke the details as follows  

 Litton, Rev E Litton, Naunton, Cheltenham 

19.05.1866 Telescope 4.5 inch aperture, finder, 4 astronomical eyepieces, solar prism, dark glasses, dew cap, polished in red deal case.

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