Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963. Walter Hooper
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(1982) and Northern Lazio (1990).
26 i.e., John Lane The Bodley Head, the publishers of Lewis’s interplanetary trilogy.
27 ‘excessive’ or ‘in the way’.
28 That Hideous Strength.
29 A word is missing from the text.
30 A poem by Robert Browning included in his Dramatis Personae (1864).
31 1 Timothy 4:10: ‘We both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.’
* i.e. Hades, the land of the dead: not Gehenna, the land of the lost.
32 This letter was first published in the Church Times, CXXXV (8 February 1952), p. 95, under the title ‘Mere Christians’.
33 R. D. Daunton-Fear, ‘Evangelical Churchmanship’, Church Times, CXXXV (1 February 1952), p. 77.
34 An abbreviated form of the quotation from St Vincent of Lerins, Commonitorium, IV, section 3: ‘Id teneamus, quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est’: ‘Let us hold on to that which has been believed everywhere, always, by everyone.’
35 Richard Baxter, Church-history of the Government of Bishops and their Councils (1680), ‘What History is Credible, and What Not’, p. xv: ‘You know not of what Party I am of, nor what to call me; I am sorrier for you in this than for my self; if you know not, I will tell you, I am a CHRISTIAN, a MERE CHRISTIAN, of no other Religion; and the Church that I am of is the Christian Church, and hath been visible where ever the Christian Religion and Church hath been visible.’
36 This was a short story Mathews had written.
37 The Gospels, trans, into modern English by ]. B. Phillips (London: Bles, 1952).
38 ‘general presentation’.
39 One or two words are missing from the facsimile copy.
40 Genia Goelz was being baptized.
41 The twelve-week period between the end of Trinity Term, which ends on 6 July, and the beginning of Michaelmas Term, which starts on 1 October.
42 Helen D. Calkins, who first wrote to Lewis from India, had returned to the United States and was now writing from 915 Taylor Street, Albany, California.
43 Calkins’s unpublished work, ‘India Looks’, mentioned in the letter of 29 March 1952.
44 See the biography of John Alexander Chapman (1875-1968) in CL II, p. 954n.
45 J. A. Chapman, War (Windsor: Savile Press, 1951).
46 Warnie.
47 Lewis usually stayed at the Old Inn in Crawfordsburn when visiting Greeves.
48 Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867).
49 Mark 9:24.
50 John 7:17.
51 Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of the Lynns: A Story of Hidden Treasure (1952).
52 For some time Lewis had been planning a holiday with Arthur Greeves in Northern Ireland. He expected to arrive at Greeves’s house on 21 August, and leave on the night of 8 September. Lewis and Green had long wanted to visit the ruined castles of North Wales, beginning with Beaumaris Castle, Anglesey.
53 Liverpool.
54 This letter is found only in Vanauken, A Severe Mercy, ch. 5, p. 110.
55 Michael Kevin Irwin (1944-), a schoolboy who wrote to Lewis about the Narnian stories, was born on 2 December 1944. He was educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford, and was the son of the Rev. Patrick Irwin, to whom Lewis wrote on 26 September 1952.
56 E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904); The Story of the Amulet (1906).
57 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: or There and Back Again (1937).
58 George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (1872); The Princess and Curdie (1883).
59 Baloo is the sleepy brown bear in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.
60 Bulkeley Arms Hotel, Beaumaris.
61 Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica (1929).
62 Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-day and Other Pieces (1867), ‘Brahma’, 11.
63 In Miracles: A Preliminary Study (London: Bles, 1947; Fount, 1998), pp. 90, 110, Lewis quotes from Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World (1925).
64 See Mary Neylan,