Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963. Walter Hooper
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СКАЧАТЬ is disgraced if this book doesn’t get published: yet ordinary publishers will be so likely to send it to someone like Ryle to vet, and that will be fatal. Gollancz, Sheed, Faber, are possibles.

      May I pass on my copy to Owen Barfield?–I must have someone to talk to about it.

      When can we meet? Can you come over sometime next May or June and dine? (I can provide bed & breakfast)

      I now feel that my illnesses etc are no excuse for my not having read it before. That this celestial bomb shd. have lain undetonated on my table all these months is a kind of allegory. Thanks to the Nth.

      Yours sincerely

      C. S. Lewis

       TO RUTH PITTER(BOD): TS

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford. 26th March 1951.

      Dear Miss Pitter,

      Yours ignorantly,

      C. S. Lewis

      

       TO GEORGE SAYER(W): TS

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford. 26th March 1951.

      My dear George,

      Yours

      Jack

      

       TO CHRISTIAN HARDIE (P):

      [Magdalen]

      27/3/51

      Dear Christian

      Of course it is not a question of where I like the characters in the sense of wishing to meet them in real life. In that sense I like Sebastian better than lulia (or dislike him less): but I ‘like’ lulia better as a character in the sense that I find her live & worth reading about, while I find him dull. What matters more than absolute liking or disliking is some degree of sympathy with the author’s revealed preferences. I didn’t think the mother & Brideshead ‘priggish & imperious’ & I didn’t think Ryder ‘a sane & ordinary chap!’ As to liking & disliking the ‘idea’ of twitch-on-the-thread, I’m not absolutely certain that I often have any experience I wd. call liking or disliking an idea.

      I await your next prescription with interest. We might even make it Advent instead of Lent!

      I liked yr. friend extremely.

      Yours

      Jack

      

       TO VERA MATHEWS (W):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford. 27/3/51

      Dear Miss Mathews

      I have just got your letter of the 22nd. containing the sad news of your father’s death. But, dear lady, I hope you and your mother are not really ‘trying to pretend it didn’t happen’. It does happen, happens to all of us, and I have no patience with the high minded people who make out that it ‘doesn’t matter’. It matters a great deal, and very solemnly. And for those who are left, the pain is not the whole thing. I feel v. strongly (and I am not alone in this) that some good comes from the dead to the living in the months or weeks after the death. I think I was much helped by my own father after his death: as if our Lord welcomed the newly dead with the gift of some power to bless those they have left behind; His birthday present. Certainly, they often seem just at that time, to be very near us. God bless you all and give you grace to receive all the good in this, as in every other event, is intended you.

      I have had flu’ three times but am better now and am going for a holiday on Friday. As to beef—it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good: СКАЧАТЬ