Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949. Walter Hooper
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he came up to Balliol College from Edinburgh University in 1884. After taking a First in Classics in 1887 he was Fellow in Philosophy at Balliol, 1891–1910, before moving to Magdalen. A distinguished scholar of Aristotle, for many years he exercised great influence in the Oxford Aristotelian Society. His translation of De Anima appeared in 1931. He maintained the Idealist tradition of T. H. Green and Edward Caird. A chapter is devoted to him in James Patrick, The Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford, 1901–1945 (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1985).
49 Frederick David Lyddiatt, who lived at 52 Wharton Road, Headington, helped out at The Kilns, sometimes acting as chauffeur.
50 Chesney Horwood (1904–90) came up to Oxford in 1922 as an exhibitioner of the Non-Collegiate Society. After graduating he spent two years as Lektor in English Literature at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. On returning to Oxford in 1928 he became Fellow of English and Dean at the Non-Collegiate Society which in 1930 was refounded as St Catherine’s Society, and which in 1962 became St Catherine’s College. Apart from 1940–6, when he served in the Intelligence Service, Horwood spent his entire working life in the service of the society.
51 See J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) in the Biographical Appendix to CL I. Tolkien and Lewis were just beginning their regular meetings which led to the founding of the Inklings.
52 See Henry Victor Dyson ‘Hugo’ Dyson (1896–1975) in the Biographical Appendix to CL I. He was a lecturer and tutor in English in the University of Reading, 1921–45, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Merton College, Oxford, 1945–63.
53 R. W. Chapman, The Portrait of a Scholar & Other Essays Written in Macedonia, 1916–1918 (1922).
54 David Lindsay Keir (1895–1973) was a Fellow of New College, Oxford, 1921–39, President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s College, Belfast, 1939–49, and Master of Balliol College, 1949–65.
55 Frederick Henry Lawson (1897–1983) was Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford, 1930–48, and Professor of Comparative Law and a Fellow of Brasenose College, 1948–64.
56 The Barley Mow pub at Blewbury, Oxfordshire.
57 J. W. A. Condlin was Albert Lewis’s managing clerk from 1917 until Albert’s death in 1929.
58 ‘The Tower of Glass’ was the Rev. Ernest William Carlisle Hayes (1896–1950). Hayes took his BA from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1889, and was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1893. After serving in a number of parishes, he was Rector of St Mark’s, Dundela, 1925–35. The Lewis brothers gave him this nickname after the firm of stained-glass artists (see note 60) because he was in charge of installing the window dedicated to their parents.
59 The Rev. Claude Lionel Chavasse (1897–1983), of an Anglo-Irish family, took his BA from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1922. He was trained at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, and ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1929. He was Curate of St Mark’s, Dundela, 1928–31, after which he served in a number of parishes in County Cork. He was Vicar of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, 1947–57.
60 Jack and Warnie planned to give a stained-glass window to St Mark’s in honour of their parents. The window, erected in 1935, was designed by Michael Healy (1873–1941). He was a member of The Tower of Glass, a group of stained-glass window artists of the time. For information about the window see David Bleakley, C. S. Lewis—At Home in Ireland (Belfast: Strandtown Press, 1998), pp. 182–3.
61 John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558).
62 Mary Elizabeth ‘Lily’ Ewart (1888–1976) was the sister of Arthur Greeves, and the wife of Charles Gordon Ewart (1885–1936).
63 John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), V, 384–5: ‘no though! infirm/Altered her cheek’
64 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843).
65 ‘Leeborough’ or ‘Leeboro’ was Jack and Warnie’s private name for their family home, Little Lea. A ‘Leeborough edition’ is a book from Little Lea.
66 Since they were boys Jack and Warnie had been amused by their father’s ‘low’ Irish pronunciation of ‘potatoes’ as ‘p’daytas’. As a result, Mr Lewis was nicknamed ‘The P’dayta’ or ‘The P’daytabird’. The term came to be applied to anyone displaying the characteristics of their father, in particular an ignorant dogmatism. Jack eventually discovered this characteristic in himself: ‘I’m afraid I must be a P’dayta,’ he wrote to Warnie on 2 August 1928, ‘for I made a P’daytism the other day: I began talking about the world and how it was well explored by now and, said I “We know there are no undiscovered islands.” It was left for Maureen to point out the absurdity’ (CI I, p. 777).
67 The Rev, Alured George Clarke was Vicar of All Saints, Highfield, Oxford, 1920–35.
68 William Cowper, Poetry & Prose, With Essays by Hazlitt & Bagehot. introduction and notes by Humphrey S. Milford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921),
69 George MacDonald, Phantastes: A Faerie Romance (1858).
70 Mr (later Sir) Frederick Lucius O’Brien (1896–1974), a Quaker, was Arthur’s cousin on his mother’s side. During his life he held many civil and governmental positions in Belfast. He and Arthur often travelled together.
71 I Peter 3:15.
72 Matthew 7:20.
73 Galatians 5:22–3: ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy. peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.’ (RSV)
74 The Imitation of Christ, a manual of spiritual devotion first put into circulation in 1418 and traditionally ascribed to Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471).
75 Thomas Carlyle,