Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963. Walter Hooper

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235 At this time Reed was in Oxford beginning a B. Litt. degree. Following Lewis’s suggestion, he sought the advice of the President of Magdalen College, Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase (1898-1974). In the end Reed was advised to give up work on his B. Litt. and take the job at Winchester College which began in January 1953. By mid 1953 he had accepted an appointment at the University of Edinburgh.

236 See the letter to Hesketh of 4 October 1952.

237 Mrs Johnson was given the pseudonym ‘Mrs Ashtorï in L.

238 Mrs Johnson asked ‘What is your correct title?’ The following notes indicate the questions she asked (the original of her list is in the Wade Center).

239 ‘Do people get another chance after death? I refer to Charles Williams.’

240 ‘What would happen if I had died an atheist?’

241 ‘What happens to Jews who are still waiting for the Messiah?’

242 ‘Is the Bible infallible?’

243 Lewis originally wrote ‘not read with attention’, but altered this to ‘without’, presumably overlooking that he had written ‘not read’. But his meaning is ‘isolated from their context and read without attention…’

244 фονχεύσετς as in Matthew 19:18.

245 άποχτεíναι as in John 8:37.

246 ‘If a thief killed Eileen would I be wrong to want him to die?’

247 ‘Is killing in self defense all right?’

248 Romans 13:4.

249 Luke 3:14.

250 Matthew 8:10.

251 ‘Will we recognize our loved ones in Heaven?’

252 Matthew 22:4.

253 Matthew 22:2-12; Luke 12:36.

254 Hebrews 11:16; 12:22.

255 Revelation 5:8-14.

256 ‘If Wayne didn’t go to Heaven I wouldn’t want to either. Would his name be erased from my brain?’

257 ‘Do you like sweets?’

258 ‘Are you handsome?’

259 ‘Tell me the story about the barber.’

260 Edward T. Dell Jr had written to Bles on 30 October 1952 that those essays by Lewis ‘chiefly found in pamphlet form or as articles in the “Spectator” might, with an appropriate preface, make an interesting book of essays…There is also a sermon that might be included as well. It was delivered in a church in the midlands on Apr. 7, 1946…I imagine Dr Lewis would scoff at the idea of a reprinting of his first book Spirits in Bondage but to me the book seems to merit it just as much as did Dymer’ (Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 771, fol. 9).

261 On 7 April 1946 Lewis preached a sermon entitled ‘Miserable Offenders’ in St Matthew’s Church, Northampton. It was included in a booklet, Five Sermons by Laymen (April-May 1946), and is reprinted in EC.

262 Mrs Shelburne, formerly an Anglican or Episcopalian, in 1951 converted to the Catholic Church.

263 See J. R. R. Tolkien in the Biographical Appendix to CL I, pp. 1022-4.

264 Lewis had read the typescript of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in October 1949, and he wrote to his friend about it on 27 October 1949 (CL II, pp. 990-1). Since then Tolkien had been trying to get it published, hoping whoever published it would also publish the unfinished Silmarillion. Rayner Unwin, the son of the publisher Sir Stanley Unwin (1884-1968) of Allen & Unwin publishers, believed it to be a very great work and his father left it to him to decide whether the firm should accept it. After calculations and discussions with others in Allen & Unwin, Rayner wrote to Tolkien on 10 November 1952 saying the firm would like to publish the book under a profit-sharing agreement, under which Tolkien would receive nothing until the sales of the book had covered its publishing costs, but would afterwards share equally with the publishers any profits that might accrue. Tolkien was delighted The Lord of the Rings had been accepted, and he wrote at once to tell Lewis what had happened. Lewis replied with this letter.

265 ‘without trace’.

266 Priscilla was Tolkien’s daughter.

267 Katharine Farrer had been corresponding with Tolkien about The Lord of the Rings.

268 MacDonald, Diary of an Old Soul, November 3: ‘Have pity on us for the look of things,/Where blank denial stares us in the face./Although the serpent mask have lied before/It fascinates the bird.’

269 Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34.

270 Romans 12:5.

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