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

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СКАЧАТЬ target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_645ac7ae-49cc-507a-a002-418c0a8411c6">³⁰ for all that is dead as mutton to me now. and the points chiefly at issue between the Anthroposophists and me then were precisely the points on which anthroposophy is certainly right—i.e. the claim that it is possible for man, here and now, in the phenomenal world, to have commerce with the world beyond—which is what I was denying. The present difference between us is quite other. The only thing that I now wd. object eagerly to [in] anthroposophy is that I don’t think it can say ‘I believe in one God the Father Almighty.’ My feeling is that even if there are a thousand orders of beneficent being above us, still, the universe is a cheat unless at the back of them all there is the one God of Christianity. But I did not mean to raise controversial points: there is certainly quite a lot for us to agree on as against nearly the whole contemporary world! I would quite agree, for instance, with your discovery that it is Will wh. lets the cat out of the bag—and also with your refusal to rest in Croce.³¹ His is the kind of idealism that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from materialism. What a ghastly pun that his name should mean ‘Blessed Cross’!

      I don’t understand the part about the eternal feminine (and masculine) in your letter, and look forward to hearing more about it when next we meet. Cecil was looking grand when he came down to us—he is the most-un-ageing of my friends.

We are all disappointed that your father has abandoned the idea of buying Tewsfield.³² With very many thanks,

      yours sincerely,

      C. S. Lewis

       TO GUY POCOCK (W):

      The Kilns

      Headington Quarry,

      Oxford

      March 31st 1933

      Dear Pocock

      This is unfortunate! Since I last wrote family arrangements have been maturing which will take me out of Oxford from the 6th onwards—so that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week are the only days (until the 23rd and after). I don’t want to be a nuisance: on the other hand I should very much like to see you. So just do as you would like. If you want to get me at short notice my Telephone number is 6963 Oxford—preferably after dinner. So sorry.

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

       TO J. M. DENT PUBLISHERS (W):

      Department B

      Flint Hall

      Hambledon,

      Bucks

      April 12th 1933

      Dear Sir

      I return corrected proof of the Pilgrim’s Regress. Would you kindly direct the special attention of the printer to the following points

      1. Greek quotations pp 101–107. Make quite sure of the correction in several places: i.e. read Δ (= ‘Delta,’ 4th letter of the Gk. alphabet) for ó.

      2. On p. 228 my note may not be perfectly clear. I want the poem to be spaced like this: [series of eight lines close together, the final one separated by a line or two]

      3. Quotations on pp 11, 31 etc. Ought these to have stops after them? And if so, ought the dashes to be removed? I have put in the stops and not removed the dashes, but am ready to be guided by the printer’s decision as to what is usual in such cases.

      Yours faithfully

      C. S. Lewis

      Address after Monday next,

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.

       TO GUY POCOCK (W):

      Magdalen College.

      Oxford.

      May 4th 1933

      Dear Pocock

      Yes—I heartily approve Derrick’s jacket: but should prefer to see the legend ‘Reason set…up’ omitted, Photo will be sent as soon as taken.

      In haste,

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

      It really is good: quite beyond my hopes. The legend under it however must be omitted, because nothing less like a spurring rider could well be imagined. Anyway it is not needed.

      The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published by J. M. Dent on 25 May 1933.

       TO GUY POCOCK (W):

      MAGDALEN COLLEGE.

      Oxford.

      June 9th 1933

      Dear Pocock

      Could you let me have 4 more copies of P. R. and tell me what I owe you for them?

      I recommend the underlined passage in the enclosed for advertisement use as soon as we get anything on the other side to set beside it,

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

       TO ARTHUR GREEVES (W):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.

      June 13th. 1933

      My dear Arthur,

      You ought to have had a copy of Pilgrim’s Regress from me before now and a letter long before. My six complementary copies turned out to have so many unexpected claimants that I had exhausted them before I knew where I was: some new ones are now on order and I will send you one as soon as they arrive.

      As for letters, they have been rather out of the question. I have never had a busier term—9 to 1 and 5 to 7 every week day and two Sundays completely filled with extra work in the middle of the term: not to mention exams which have now set in and which will keep my nose to the grindstone till the end of July. However I have kept very well and have therefore nothing to complain of—except that I am rather hungry for reading and don’t know when I shall get a few uninterrupted hours again.

‘Invigilating’ in exams last week I did manage to read one novel (I find that anything harder than novels is too much for me in the Schools) which I can recommend—Tom’s a-cold by John Collier.³³ The theme is one not uncommon now-a-days: that of a barbaric ‘heroic’ society growing up on the ruins of the present civilisation. But it has two great advantages over most such books. 1. It doesn’t waste time telling you how civilisation collapsed but starts a 100 years on. 2. It lays the scene in the South of England and is very topographical, so that you СКАЧАТЬ