All good wishes.
Yours sincerely,
C. S. Lewis
TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE (W):
Magdalen College
Oxford
Jan. 19th 1953
Dear Mrs. Shelburne
Thank you for your kind letter of Dec. 29th which arrived today. I am afraid I have no idea what the first editions of Screwtape or the Divorce sell at: I haven’t even got a first of the former myself. But you would be foolish to spend a cent more on them than the published price: both belong to the worst war-period and are scrubby little things on rotten paper–your American editions are far nicer.
Your letter was most cheering and I am full of agreements. Of course we’ll help each other in our prayers. God bless you.
Yours most sincerely
C. S. Lewis
TO BELLE ALLEN (L, WHL):
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
19 January 1953
I don’t wonder that you got fogged in Pilgrim’s Regress. It was my first religious book and I didn’t then know how to make things easy. I was not even trying to very much, because in those days I never dreamed I would become a ‘popular’ author and hoped for no readers outside a small ‘highbrow’ circle. Don’t waste your time over it any more. The poetry is my own…We all feel ashamed of receiving so much from you and are not even sure-now-whether our scarcities are any worse than your high prices. Don’t you think you ought to stop?…
TO MARG’RIETTE MONTGOMERY (W): TS
REF.65/53.
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
21st January 1953
Dear Miss Montgomery,
This is a splendid poem of Edna Millay’s and the last two lines put the whole of one’s experience in a nut-shell.
(#ulink_9796ee6f-d3ba-5a45-8339-f9af09696747) You were right not to send me the R.S.
(#ulink_4950a046-19dd-5295-8b85-73b5fa53b481) books: I have several Anthroposophical friends here who would readily supply me with all his works. And by the way, the point about a musician is surely her music, not her advice about reading! Keep your independence.
All good wishes.
Yours sincerely,
C. S. Lewis
TO NELL BERKERS’PRICE (W): TS
REE67/53.
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
21st January 1953.
Dear Nell,
Your letter is tantalisingly cryptic, but as I have to go to Holloway next Sunday, no doubt I shall see for myself!
Love to all.
Yours,
Jack
TO CHAD WALSH (W): TS
RER73/53.
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
24th January 1953.
Dear Chad,
I wonder if I may trouble you to do me a service? You will already guess what it is when you have read the enclosed note, which was an answer to Revd. Iones B. Shannon,
(#ulink_90d248f7-758a-55c6-99be-c489d1698962) who kindly invited me to lecture at his College. The only address he gave was:–
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church,
State College,
Pennsylvania