Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949. Walter Hooper

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СКАЧАТЬ John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), V, 384–5: ‘no though! infirm/Altered her cheek’

64 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843).

65 ‘Leeborough’ or ‘Leeboro’ was Jack and Warnie’s private name for their family home, Little Lea. A ‘Leeborough edition’ is a book from Little Lea.

66 Since they were boys Jack and Warnie had been amused by their father’s ‘low’ Irish pronunciation of ‘potatoes’ as ‘p’daytas’. As a result, Mr Lewis was nicknamed ‘The P’dayta’ or ‘The P’daytabird’. The term came to be applied to anyone displaying the characteristics of their father, in particular an ignorant dogmatism. Jack eventually discovered this characteristic in himself: ‘I’m afraid I must be a P’dayta,’ he wrote to Warnie on 2 August 1928, ‘for I made a P’daytism the other day: I began talking about the world and how it was well explored by now and, said I “We know there are no undiscovered islands.” It was left for Maureen to point out the absurdity’ (CI I, p. 777).

67 The Rev, Alured George Clarke was Vicar of All Saints, Highfield, Oxford, 1920–35.

68 William Cowper, Poetry & Prose, With Essays by Hazlitt & Bagehot. introduction and notes by Humphrey S. Milford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921),

69 George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance (1858).

70 Mr (later Sir) Frederick Lucius O’Brien (1896–1974), a Quaker, was Arthur’s cousin on his mother’s side. During his life he held many civil and governmental positions in Belfast. He and Arthur often travelled together.

71 I Peter 3:15.

72 Matthew 7:20.

73 Galatians 5:22–3: ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy. peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.’ (RSV)

74 The Imitation of Christ, a manual of spiritual devotion first put into circulation in 1418 and traditionally ascribed to Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471).

75 Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Rasartus (1836).

76 William Morris, A Dream of John Ball (1888); Love is Enough (1872); The Wood Beyond the World (1894).

77 See Martin Lings in the Biographical Appendix.

78 Adrian Hugh Paterson (1909–401 look his BA from Magdalen in 1934. He lectured on English in the University of Hong Kong, 1934–8, and was a lecturer on English at Cairo University from 1938 until 1940 when he died as a result of an accident that occurred while he and Martin Lings were riding together in the desert.

79 ‘The Cave’ was a group of English dons who met regularly for talks about literary subjects or to discuss matters in the English School. It was named after the Cave of Adullam in which David organized the conspiracy against Saul (1 Samuel 22:1: ‘David…escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him’). The membership, which included Lewis, Tolkien, Nevill Coghill, Hugo Dyson, Leonard Rice-Oxley, H. F. B. Brett-Smith and Maurice Ridley, were opponents of what had been, until 1931, the reigning faction in the School of English. See also note 29 to the letter to Warnie of 24 October 1931.

80 Drinking parties.

81 Edward Maurice Hugh-Jones (1903–97) read History at New College. Oxford, in 1924, after which he read Philosophy. Politics and Economics (PPE) and look a BA in 1925. He was a lecturer at Keble College, 1926–7, and Tutor in Economics. 1927–59. He was Professor of Economics at Keele University. 1959–68. His works include (with E. A. Radice) An American Experiment (1936) and Woodrow Wilson and American Liberalism (1947).

82 Molière, Le Tartuffe (1664).

83 Molière, Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite, trans. Curtis Hidden Page (1912) Line 58.

84 This was probably William Taylor, who lived at Shotover Cottage, Old Road, Headington Quarry.

85 The 8 a.m. ‘early celebration’ of Holy Communion at Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry. This was an important turning point in Lewis’s life. For some time he had been attending matins and evensong in his college chapel and at Holy Trinity, but in participating in the sacrament, Lewis was doing something he knew would be blasphemous unless he was a believer. Jack knew his brother would understand the seriousness of his action.

      Warnie, too, went to Holy Communion on Christmas Day 1931. He wrote in his diary that day: ‘I attended the service with very mixed feeling, gladness predominating at once again finding myself a full member of the Church after so many years of indifference or worse…I came away feeling profoundly thankful that I have once again become a communicant, and intend (D.V.) [Deo Volente-“God Willing”] to go regularly at least four times a year in future’ (BF). On receiving the present letter from his brother, Warnie wrote on 17 January 1932: ‘A letter from | today containing the news that he too has once more started to go to Communion, at which I am delighted. Had he not done so, I, with my altered views would have found—hardly a bar between us, but a Jack of a complete identity of interest which I should have regretted’ (ibid.).

86 i.e. the Rev. Edward Foord-Kelcey.

87 Foord-Kelcey would no doubt have thought of donating his letter from Dr Johnson to Mrs Hester Thrale (1741–1821) to Pembroke College, Oxford, because this was the college of both Johnson and Foord-Kelcey himself. When he died in 1934, Foord-Kelcey left the letter to C. S. Lewis, who kept it for the rest of his life. Upon his death in 1963, Warnie gave it to Pembroke College.

88 The Somnium Scipiona (‘Dream of Scipio’) is the fable with which Cicero ends his De Republica.

89 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847).

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