Acknowledgements
It is always a pleasure to acknowledge indebtedness to others, especially since this represents a celebration of the collegiality of scholarship. My greatest debt is to archivists who have opened their collections to me, occasionally uncovering items for the first time. I owe particular thanks to the following: the BBC Written Archives Collection, Caversham Park; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Cambridge University Library; Craigavon Historical Society; Exeter College, Oxford; Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxford; Keble College, Oxford; King’s College, Cambridge; Lambeth Palace Library, London; Magdalen College, Oxford; Magdalene College, Cambridge; Merton College, Oxford; Methodist College, Belfast; National Archives (Public Records Office), Kew; Oxford University Officers’ Training Corps; Oxfordshire History Centre; the Royal Society of Literature; the Swedish Academy; University College, Oxford; and the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
I gratefully acknowledge the award of a Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant for 2011 at the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. I also wish to acknowledge helpful and perceptive conversations with leading Lewis authorities Walter Hooper, Don King, Alan Jacobs, and especially Michael Ward. I also benefitted from discussions with my editor, Mark Norton, as well as with Charles Bressler, Joanna Collicutt, J. R. Lucas, Roger Steer, Robert Tobin, and Andrew Walker. Among those who have helped me with archival work, I would especially like to thank Dr. Robin Darwall-Smith, archivist of both Magdalen College and University College, Oxford, and Laura Schmidt and Heidi Truty of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College. I am also grateful for the help of many others in checking facts and tracing photographs and other records, particularly Rachel Churchill, the Comité Départemental de Tourisme en Pas de Calais, Andreas Ekström, Michaela Holmström, Monica Thapar, the Ulster Museum, and Adrian Wood. Jonathan Schindler provided invaluable assistance at the copyediting stage. I myself remain responsible for any errors of fact or judgement.
The author and publishers gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce extracts from copyrighted material, as follows. COLLECTED LETTERS by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 2004, 2006; SURPRISED BY JOY by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1955; ALL MY ROAD BEFORE ME by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1992; ESSAYS by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 2000; THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1950; REFLECTIONS ON THE PSALMS by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1958; THE SILVER CHAIR by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1953; THE LAST BATTLE by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1956; THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1955; THE PILGRIM’S REGRESS by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1933; THE PROBLEM OF PAIN by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1940; A GRIEF OBSERVED by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1961; REHABILITATIONS by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1979; SPIRITS IN BONDAGE by C. S. Lewis, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1984; illustrations by Pauline Baynes © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd 1950. C. S. Lewis’s unpublished letter of 16 January 1961, nominating J. R. R. Tolkien for the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature (illustration 14.2), copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. The letters of J. R. R. Tolkien © The J. R. R. Tolkien Copyright Trust 1981, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Archive material is cited with the permission of the warden and fellows of Keble College, Oxford; the president and fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford; the master and fellows of University College, Oxford; and the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
Permission to reproduce photographs and other illustrations is gratefully acknowledged as follows. The president and fellows of Magdalen College (5.1; 5.2; 6.1); the master and fellows of University College (3.1); Oxfordshire History Collection (3.2; 4.1; 6.3; 8.1); Billet Potter, Oxford (5.5); the Francis Frith Collection (1.1; 2.3; 4.2; 4.3; 4.5; 6.2; 7.1; 7.3; 8.3; 13.1; 14.1); C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd (11.1; 11.2; 12.1; 14.2); Penelope Bide (13.3); Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxford (14.3); the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois (1.3; 1.5; 2.1; 2.2; 3.3; 4.4; 5.3; 5.4; 7.2; 8.2; 10.1; 13.2; 15.1). Other illustrations used in this book are taken from the author’s personal collection.
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