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

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2018
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But all good wishes: we must just differ: in charity I hope. You must not be angry with me for believing you know: I’m not angry with you!

Yours sincerely,

C. S. Lewis

TO HARRY BLAMIRES (BOD): TS

RER401//51.

Magdalen College,

Oxford.

29th October 1951.

Dear Blamires,

I hope my refusal will rank as a very ‘flat’ one.

(#ulink_5c1d373b-ecad-59cd-bed3-81a7ae35d13c)I am struggling with a preface for another book at the moment and wishing I’d never undertaken it!

(#ulink_1ee02f4c-5b5e-5801-8fb0-aef9803fcb64) I don’t believe I would really do you any good, for [I] think the Educational world is rather anti-me. I could write a paragraph– the sort of thing that comes out in the catalogue or on the dust jacket. I’m sorry. But I must get out of these ‘little jobs one after another’ that, in the aggregate, really cripple one.

Yours,

C. S. Lewis

TO SHELDON VANAUKEN (BOD): PC

Magdalen College

Oxford

5/11/51

How is the Back? And if it is better, cd. you come and dine with me on Wed. next 7 (not dressed: call in my rooms at 7. sharp) or, if that is not convenient, cd. you lunch at 1 o’clock the same day? My duty to your wife

C. S. Lewis

TO HERBERT PALMER (TEX):

(#ulink_e8ac8321-da08-566b-8f8b-1dfc4047d4cd)

20/11/51

‘To which’ [i.e. to Rhetoric] ‘poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate’–Tractate on Education (Prose Wks, Bohn’s Edtn. Vol. Ill, p. 473.)

(#ulink_43d2c615-4a3d-5a8f-9b8a-b63bccc02eb6)

Bad luck on ‘impassioned’ wh. he certainly did NOT say, whatever E.S. may think. I imagine, tho’, that passionate and impassioned meant v. nearly the same.

I’m afraid I never see the Fortnightly, but will look out for yr. article if I do.

(#ulink_14c909ac-0b7f-5991-902c-bac2c606e3ab) I am v. sorry you have been so ill and hope there is a better time coming. I’m alright. Blessings–

C.S.L.

TO I. O. EVANS (W):

Magdalen etc.

27/11/51

Dear Evans

(I wish you wouldn’t doctor or mister me!) I was a pig not to send you a Caspian, but you know how, at the moment of making out one’s list one has first 3 names wh. some recent event makes obvious, and after those one can only think either of 100 people or no one. I now rectify the omission. I am delighted that it pleased you. I look forward v. much to the ‘booklets’. The conception sounds excellent and, I hope they will be a great success.

Yours

C. S. Lewis

TO WILLIAM L. KINTER(BOD): TS

REF.310/51.

Magdalen College,

Oxford.

27th November 1951.

Dear Mr. Kinter,

Thank you for your kind letter of the 19th. What it is to have a real reader! No one else sees that the first book is Ransom’s enfances:

if they notice a change at all, they complain that in the later ones he ‘loses the warm humanity of the first’ etc.

All the best.

Yours sincerely,

C. S. Lewis

TO MISS TUNNICLIFF (P):

Magdalen College,

Oxford.
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