[500] Mere Christianity , 52.
[500] Mere Christianity, 52.
[501] Ibid., 123.
[502] Lewis’s views on this matter can be found in Mere Christianity, 104–113.
[503] The text, which was found tucked into Tolkien’s copy of Lewis’s pamphlet Christian Behaviour, is included in Tolkien’s published correspondence: Tolkien, Letters, 59–62.
[504] Lewis to Emrys Evans [Principal, University College of North Wales], 30 October 1941; Letters, vol. 2, 494.
[505] A Preface to “Paradise Lost,” 1.
[506] Ibid., 62–63.
[507] The Newcastle campus of the University of Durham formally became a university in its own right in 1963, with the ownership of the Riddell Memorial Lectures being transferred to the new University of Newcastle.
[508] The Abolition of Man, 18.
[509] Ibid., 1–4.
[510] Ibid., 18.
[511] The best study is Lucas, “The Restoration of Man.”
[512] George Macaulay Trevelyan to Lewis, 2 February 1945, MS Eng. c. 6825, fol. 602, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[513] J. R. R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien, 13 April 1944; Tolkien, Letters, 71.
[514] For example, Pearce, C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church, 107–112.
[515] Surprised by Joy, 38.
[516] “On Science Fiction,” in Essay Collection, 456–457.
[517] Ibid., 459.
[518] Letter to Roger Lancelyn Green, 28 December 1938; Letters, vol. 2, 236–237.
[519] Haldane, Possible Worlds, 190–197.
[520] For further details, see Harry Bruinius, Better For All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity (New York: Knopf, 2006).
[521] “Vivisection,” in Essay Collection, 693–697.
[522] Ibid., 696.
[523] Ibid., 695.
[524] “Religion: Don v. Devil,” Time, 8 September 1947.
[525] J. R. R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien, 1 March 1944; Tolkien, Letters, 68.
[526] Lewis made little effort to conceal his home telephone number: Oxford 6963.
[527] J. R. R. Tolkien to Joy Hill, 10 May 1966; Tolkien, Letters, 368–369.
[528] J. R. R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien, 28 October 1944; Tolkien, Letters, 102.
[529] J. R. R. Tolkien to Rayner Unwin, 9 September 1954; Tolkien, Letters, 184.
[530] MS RSL E2, C. S. Lewis file, Cambridge University Library.
[531] A. N. Wilson, Lewis: A Biography, 191.
[532] Letter to Jill Flewett, 17 April 1946; Letters, vol. 2, 706.
[533] Letter to Lord Salisbury, 9 March 1947; Letters, vol. 2, 766.
[534] Letter to Owen Barfield, 4 April 1949; Letters, vol. 2, 929.
[535] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 2 July 1949; Letters, vol. 2, 952.
[536] Letter to J. R. R. Tolkien, 27 October 1949; Letters, vol. 2, 990–991.
[537] Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria, 13 September 1951; Letters, vol. 3, 136. My translation of Lewis’s Latin.
[538] Letter to the Prime Minister’s Secretary, 4 December 1951; Letters, vol. 3, 147. The British cabinet office finally confirmed this information following a “Freedom of Information” request on 26 January 2012.
[539] Tolkien, Letters, 125–129.
[540] Stella Aldwinckle, OH/SR-1, fol. 9, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[541] Per. 267 e.20, no. 1, fol. 4, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[542] Stella Aldwinckle Papers, 8/380; Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[543] “Evil and God,” in Essay Collection, 93.
[544] J. B. S. Haldane, “When I Am Dead,” in Possible Worlds and Other Essays (London: Chatto and Windus, 1927), 209.
[545] This conclusion was printed in italics in the original first edition: C. S. Lewis, Miracles (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947), 27.
[546] The text of her critique of Lewis is to be found in Socratic Digest 4 (1948): 7–15. This was later reprinted in The Collected Philosophical Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, vol. 2 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981), 224–232.
[547] A. N. Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 220.
[548] John Lucas, personal communication to author, dated 14 October 2010. Lucas (born 1929) was studying Literae Humaniores at Balliol College at the time of the Anscombe debate.
[549] “Christian Apologetics,” in Essay Collection, 159.
[550] Letter to Mary van Deusen, 18 June 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 762.
[551] The Italian translation was titled Le Lettere di Berlicche. The book’s two chief characters—Screwtape and Wormwood—were renamed Berlicche and Malacoda.
[552] The best study of this correspondence is Dal Corso, Il Servo di Dio, 78–83.
[553] Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria [in Latin; my translation], 14 January 1949; Letters, vol. 2, 905. Although Lewis was able to read Dante’s Italian, it is interesting to note that he did not use this language when writing to Don Giovanni.
[554] Letter to Robert C. Walton, 10 July 1951; Letters, vol. 3, 129.
[555] Letter to Stella Aldwinckle, 12 June 1950; Letters, vol. 3, 33–35.
[556] Letter to Carl F. H. Henry, 28 September 1955; Letters, vol. 3, 651. For Lewis’s approach to apologetics, see McGrath, “Reason, Experience, and Imagination: Lewis’s Apologetic Method,” in The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis, 129–146.
[557] “C. S. Lewis’s Handwriting Analysed,” Times, 27 February 2008. Lewis did indeed have a “garden shed of sorts”: see his “Meditation in a Toolshed,” in Essay Collection, 607–610.
[558] Letter to Eliza Marian Butler, 25 September 1940; Letters, vol. 2, 444–446.
[559] J. R. R. Tolkien to W. H. Auden, 7 June 1955; Tolkien, Letters, 215.
[560] Miracles, 44.
[561] Letter to Sister Penelope, 20 February 1943; Letters, vol. 2, 555. Lewis’s Greek phrase ex hypokeimenōn (mistranscribed by the editor of Letters) literally means “out of those things that lie to hand,” although it is better understood as “out of underlying realities.”
[562] This memory is not dated, but must precede Maureen’s marriage to Leonard Blake on 27 August 1940, when she moved out of The Kilns.
[563] Lady Maureen Dunbar, OH/SR-8, fol. 35, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[564] Green and Hooper, Lewis: A Biography, 305–306.
[565] We later learn that their family name is “Pevensie.” This is not disclosed in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but only appears in a later volume in the series, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader.”
[566] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 11.
[567] A Preface to “Paradise Lost,” v.
[568] “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” in Essay Collection, 512.
[569] Surprised by Joy, 14.
[570] E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle (London: Fisher Unwin, 1907), 250.
[571] E. Nesbit, The Magic World (London: Macmillan, 1924), 224–225.
[572] J. R. R. Tolkien to Allen & Unwin, 16 March 1949; Tolkien, Letters, 133.
[573] Letter to Pauline Baynes, 4 May 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 850.
[574] HarperCollins’s statement is clearly based on—even if it does not accurately summarise the substance of—Lewis’s letter to Laurence Krieg, 21 April 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 847–848. It is essential to appreciate the tentative note of Lewis’s comments in this letter, and especially his revealing remark that “perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone reads them.”
[575] “On Criticism,” in Essay Collection, 543–544.
[576] Ibid., 550.
[577] The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, 67.
[578] For a good example, see Jack R. Lundbom, “The Inclusio and Other Framing Devices in Deuteronomy I–XXVIII,” Vetus Testamentum 46 (1996): 296–315.
[579] “Vivisection,” in Essay Collection, 693–697.
[580] Ibid., 695–696.
[581] Ibid., 695.
[582] “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” in Essay Collection, 511.
[583] “Is Theology Poetry?” in Essay Collection, 21.
[584] “The Hobbit,” in Essay Collection, 485. See also Williams, The Lion’s World, 11–29.
[585] “On Criticism,” in Essay Collection, 550.
[586] Letter to Mrs. Hook, 29 December 1958; Letters, vol. 3, 1004.
[587] Letter to a fifth grade class in Maryland, 24 May 1954; Letters, vol. 3, 480.
[588] “Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,” in Essay Collection, 525.
[589] G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993), 105.
[590] See An Experiment in Criticism, 40–49, which identifies six characteristics of myths—all of which can be found in the Chronicles of Narnia. See also “The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard,” in Essay Collection, 559–562.
[591] See Lewis’s comments in An Experiment in Criticism, 57–73. For comment, see Fernandez, Mythe, Raison Ardente, 174–389; Williams, The Lion’s World, 75–96.
[592] An Experiment in Criticism, 45.
[593] “It All Began with a Picture . . .,” in Essay Collection, 529.
[594] Letter to Carol Jenkins, 22 January 1952; Letters, vol. 3, 160.
[595] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 166.
[596] See the list of ten works Lewis identified in 1962, the year before his death: Christian Century, 6 June 1962.
[597] Surprised by Joy, 274.
[598] The Problem of Pain, 5–13.
[599] Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (New York: Charles Scribner, 1908), 156.
[600] Ibid., 154. This section is omitted from some modern popular editions of Grahame’s classic story.
[601] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 65.
[602] Ibid.
[603] “The Weight of Glory,” in Essay Collection, 98–99.
[604] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 75. See the excellent discussion in Williams, The Lion’s World, 49–71.
[605] Bertrand Russell to Colette O’Niel, 21 October 1916; Bertrand Russell, The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, ed. Nicholas Griffin, vol. 2, The Public Years 1914–1970 (London: Routledge, 2001), 85.
[606] The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader,” 188.
[607] On film, see Christopher Deacy, “Screen Christologies: Evaluation of the Role of Christ-Figures in Film,” Journal of Contemporary Religion 14 (1999): 325–338.
[608] Mark D. Stucky, “Middle Earth’s Messianic Mythology Remixed: Gandalf’s Death and Resurrection in Novel and Film,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 13 (2006); Padley and Padley, “From Mirrored Truth the Likeness of the True.”
[609] The Problem of Pain, 82.
[610] Broadcast Talks, 52.
[611] Ibid., 53–54.
[612] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 128–129.
[613] Ibid., 142.
[614] Ibid., 148.
[615] See, for example, C. William Marx, The Devil’s Rights and the Redemption in the Literature of Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995); John A. Alford, “Jesus the Jouster: The Christ-Knight and Medieval Theories of Atonement in Piers Plowman and the ‘Round Table’ Sermons,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 10 (1996): 129–143.
[616] See Karl Tamburr, The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007).
[617] English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, 380.
[618] Ward, Planet Narnia, 3–41.
[619] Ibid., 77–99.
[620] The Last Battle, 160.
[621] Ibid., 159.
[622] Ibid., 160.
[623] The Silver Chair, 141–142.
[624] Ibid., 143.
[625] John Ezard, “Narnia Books Attacked as Racist and Sexist,” The Guardian, 3 June 2002. Pullman did not specifically name Susan, referring merely to “one girl” in the story of Narnia.
[626] Letter to Sheldon Vanauken, 14 May 1954; Letters, vol. 3, 473.
[627] Figures for students reading for honour degrees from Brockliss, Magdalen College Oxford, 617.
[628] Letter to James W. Welch, 24 November 1945; Letters, vol. 2, 681.
[629] See letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 December 1944; Letters, vol. 3, 1554.
[630] Roy S. Lee to Lewis, 29 August 1945, file 910/TAL 1b, BBC Written Archives Centre, Caversham Park.
[631] Cambridge University Reporter 84, no. 30 (31 March 1954), 986. See Barbour, “Lewis and Cambridge,” 459–465.
[632] Tolkien dates the loss of intimacy between Lewis and himself to around this time: J. R. R. Tolkien to Michael Tolkien, November 1963?; Tolkien, Letters, 341.
[633] G. M. Trevelyan, master of Trinity College, later recalled that this was the only time an electing committee had voted unanimously in his long experience at Cambridge: W. H. Lewis, “Memoir of C. S. Lewis,” 22.
[634] Henry Willink to Lewis, 11 May 1954; Group F, Private Papers, F/CSL/1, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
[635] Letter to Henry Willink, 12 May 1954; Letters, vol. 3, 470–471.
[636] Henry Willink to Lewis, 14 May 1954; Group F, Private Papers, F/CSL/1, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
[637] J. R. R. Tolkien to Henry Willink, 17 May 1954; Group F, Private Papers, F/CSL/1, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Neither this letter nor his accompanying letter to H. S. Bennett are included in existing published collections of Tolkien’s correspondence.
[638] On receiving Lewis’s letter, dated 19 May, reopening negotiations, Willink penned these words on its first page: “I wrote to Miss Gardner, May 18.”
[639] Henry Willink to Lewis, 24 May 1954; Group F, Private Papers, F/CSL/1, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
[640] Basil Willey to Henry Willink, 19 May 1954; Group F, Private Papers, F/CSL/1, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
[641] The most obvious source would be Gardner’s Oxford colleague Tolkien. But Tolkien did not make any statement to this effect in either of his letters of 17 May 1954 to Willink and Bennett.
[642] Gardner makes this clear in her obituary notice of Lewis for the British Academy: Gardner, “Clive Staples Lewis, 1898–1963.” The reader needs to know that Gardner was Cambridge’s second choice to make sense of her intriguing comments.
[643] Henry Willink to Lewis, 3 June 1954; Group F, Private Papers, F/CSL/1, Magdalene College, Cambridge. A link between Magdalen College Oxford and Magdalene College Cambridge already existed: an “amicable accord” was agreed upon in March 1931, based on a pairing arrangement by which members of each college had shared dining rights: Brockliss, Magdalen College Oxford, 601.
[644] Two letters to Sir Henry Willink, one in his capacity as vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and one in his capacity as master of Magdalene College, both dated 4 June 1954; Letters, vol. 3, 483–484. The official history of Magdalene College incorrectly records Lewis’s election to a fellowship at Magdalene as taking place in 1953: Cunich et al., A History of Magdalene College Cambridge, 258.
[645] Brockliss, Magdalen College Oxford, 593.
[646] John Wain, The Observer, 22 October 1961, 31.
[647] Letter to Edward A. Allen, 5 December 1955; Letters, vol. 3, 677–678.
[648] Barbara Reynolds, OH/SR-28, fols. 49–50, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[649] See the exchanges between Christopher Holme and P. H. Newby, 3 March 1945, file 910/TAL 1b, BBC Written Archives Centre, Caversham Park. The “Third Programme,” established in 1946, provided comment on intellectual and cultural issues, and was often parodied as “two dons talking.”
[650] Letter to Douglas Bush, 28 March 1941; Letters, vol. 2, 475.
[651] G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoria (London: Longman, 1944), 92.
[652] “De Descriptione Temporum,” in Selected Literary Essays, 2.
[653] Reflections on the Psalms, 7.
[654] Keith Thomas, “Diary,” London Review of Books 32, no. 11 (10 June 2010), 36–37.
[655] Her views are best studied from her unpublished journals: see MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/3, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[656] For an excellent study, see King, “The Anatomy of a Friendship.”
[657] Sayer, Jack, 347–348.
[658] Pitter herself was quite unaware of any suggestion that she was the obvious choice for Lewis’s wife: Ruth Pitter, OH/SR-27, fol. 30, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[659] Dorsett, And God Came In, 17.
[660] Davidman, “The Longest Way Round,” 23–24.
[661] Observer, 20 September 1998; Belfast Telegraph, 12 October 1998.
[662] Davidman’s correspondence is revealing at this point, particularly her interest in Madame de Maintenon (née Françoise d’Aubigné, 1635–1719), the second wife of the French king Louis XIV. Though “born in the workhouse,” she secured a dramatic rise in her social status through marrying a poet, and finally the king. See Davidman, Out of My Bone, 197.
[663] For a discussion of these papers, see the forthcoming study of Don W. King, Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013).
[664] Dorsett, And God Came In, 87.
[665] Davidman, Out of My Bone, 139.
[666] Davidman’s Certificate of Registration, No. A 607299, under the Aliens Order (1920) is held at the Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL: Joy Davidman Papers 1-14.
[667] Also referred to as the “Agape Fund” in some documents. Barfield closed the fund in 1968, when all the funds had been disbursed according to Lewis’s general directions.
[668] Ceplair and Englund, The Inquisition in Hollywood, 361–397.
[669] See Gibb’s letter to Lewis, 18 February 1955; MS Facs. B. 90 fol. 2, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[670] Davidman, Out of My Bone, 242.
[671] Letter to Anne Scott, 26 August 1960; Letters, vol. 3, 1181.
[672] J. R. R. Tolkien to Christopher Bretherton, 16 July 1964; Tolkien, Letters, 349.
[673] Correspondence, Joy Davidman Papers 1-14, Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[674] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 30 October 1955; Letters, vol. 3, 669.
[675] Jacobs, The Narnian, 275.
[676] Lewis’s letters to Shelburne were published in 1967 as Letters to an American Lady (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1967).
[677] Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne, 25 December 1958; Letters, vol. 3, 1004. For the regulatory change, see Paul Addison and Harriet Jones, A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939–2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 465.
[678] Letter to Ruth Pitter, 9 July 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 769.
[679] Letter to Ruth Pitter, 14 July 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 771.
[680] Mrs. Moore’s will was executed by Barfield & Barfield Solicitors on 16 July 1951.
[681] A. N. Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 266.
[682] R. E. Head, OH/SR-15, fols. 14-5, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[683] Tolkien uses this form of reference in a letter to his son Christopher, dated 13 April 1944; Tolkien, Letters, 71.
[684] Letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, 25 June 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 861–862. Lewis’s The Four Loves, written around this time, explores this theme in more detail.
[685] Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, 16 November 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 808.
[686] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 25 November 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 812.
[687] Letter to Katharine Farrer, 25 October 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 801.
[688] The most interesting of these appeared in the Daily Mail on 26 October 1956, which reported a rumour—hastily denied by Lewis—that he was due to marry a forty-six-year-old antique dealer in London the following day.
[689] Lewis refers to this announcement in a letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, written on the day on which it appeared: “You may see in the Times a notice of my marriage to Joy Gresham.” Letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, 24 December 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 819. Wilson incorrectly dates this “notice” to 22 March 1957: Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 263–264.
[690] For this episode, see Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, 631–635.
[691] Letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, 25 June 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 861.
[692] Hooper, C. S. Lewis: The Companion and Guide, 82, 633. Bide related much the same story to the present author at Oxford in 1978.
[693] He did. Sadly, Bide’s wife, Margaret, died of cancer in September 1960. Bide subsequently returned to Oxford as chaplain and tutor in theology at Lady Margaret Hall from 1968–1980.
[694] Letter to Sheldon Vanauken, 27 November 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 901.
[695] The (slightly perplexed) comment of Nevill Coghill, in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 63.
[696] Letter to Jessie M. Watt, 28 August 1958; Letters, vol. 3, 966–967.
[697] The Four Loves, 21.
[698] Tom Clark and Andrew Dilnot, Long-Term Trends in British Taxation and Spending (London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2002).
[699] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 25 March 1959; Letters, vol. 3, 1033.
[700] Letter to Chad Walsh, 22 October 1959; Letters, vol. 3, 1097.
[701] Full details in Green and Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 271–276.
[702] A Grief Observed, 38.
[703] Ibid., 3.
[704] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 30 May 1916; Letters, vol. 1, 187.
[705] T. S. Eliot to Spencer Curtis Brown, 24 October 1960; MS Eng. lett. C. 852, fol. 62, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[706] Letter to Laurence Whistler, 4 March 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1320.
[707] Surprised by Joy, x.
[708] The Problem of Pain, xii.
[709] A Grief Observed, 5–6.
[710] Letter to Sister Penelope, 5 June 1951; Letters, vol. 3, 123.
[711] A Grief Observed, 52.
[712] Letter to Sister Madeleva, CSC, 3 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1460.
[713] A Grief Observed, 44.
[714] Ibid.
[715] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 27 June 1961; Letters, vol. 3, 1277.
[716] Lewis had known Barfield and Harwood since the 1920s and went on annual walking tours with both men. See Lewis’s comments in Surprised by Joy, 231–234. Miracles was dedicated to Harwood and his wife, The Allegory of Love to Barfield.
[717] Laurence Harwood was the second son of Cecil Harwood; Lucy Barfield was Owen Barfield’s adopted daughter. Lewis had earlier dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to her. Sarah Neylan, who married Christopher Patrick Tisdall on 31 December 1960, was the daughter of Mary Neylan, to whom Lewis had dedicated his George MacDonald anthology.
[718] Letter to Francis Warner, 6 December 1961; Letters, vol. 3, 1301–1302.
[719] Published posthumously as Spenser’s Images of Life (1967).
[720] Letter to J. R. R. Tolkien, 20 November 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1382.
[721] Letter to Phoebe Hesketh, 14 June 1960; Letters, vol. 3, 1162.
[722] Letter to Alastair Fowler, 7 January 1961; Letters, vol. 3, 1223–1224.
[723] Andreas Ekström, “Greene tvåa på listan 1961” Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 3 January 2012. The Nobel archives are embargoed to the public for fifty years.
[724] Letter to the Nobel Committee for Literature, 16 January 1961, held in the archives of the Swedish Academy, released to the author on request.
[725] Letter to Cecil Roth, 20 March 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1323.
[726] Letter to Evelyn Tackett, 23 May 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1428.
[727] Letter to Walter Hooper, 2 December 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 902–903.
[728] Letter to Walter Hooper, 15 December 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1393–1394.
[729] On the reasons for the move, see Lewis’s letter to Roger Lancelyn Green, 28 January 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1408–1409. The Eagle and Child was registered as a Grade II Listed Building in December 1954. This prevented any alterations to its external appearance, but not to certain parts of its interior.
[730] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 July 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1440.
[731] Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, 15 July 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1442.
[732] Walter Hooper wrote two reports of Lewis’s time in the Acland, both mentioning these specific dates and times; Walter Hooper to Roger Lancelyn Green, 5 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1445–1446; and Walter Hooper to Mary Willis Shelburne, 10 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1447–1448.
[733] Letter to Cecil Harwood, 29 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1452.
[734] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 September 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1456.
[735] Walter Hooper to Mary Willis Shelburne, 10 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1448.
[736] Sayer, Jack, 404–405.
[737] Letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 September 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1455.
[738] Letter to Walter Hooper, 20 September 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1457.
[739] David had moved to a Talmudical college in New York, and was short of money: see Lewis’s letter to Jeannette Hopkins, 18 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1465.
[740] Letter to Walter Hooper, 11 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1461–1462.
[741] For most of 1964—when Hooper’s proposed employment would begin—£1 converted to $2.80. The sterling crisis of 1964–1967 was yet to come.
[742] Letter to Walter Hooper, 23 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1469–1470.
[743] W. H. Lewis, “C. S. Lewis: A Biography,” 468.
[744] Ibid., 470.
[745] R. E. Head, OH/SR-15, fol. 13, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
[746] Earlier that year, Maureen had inherited the title of Baronetess of Hempriggs, and was generally known as “Dame Maureen Dunbar.”
[747] Contrary to some accounts, there was no candle on Lewis’s coffin. Ronald Head, who organised and led the funeral, suggested that the acolytes’ candles may have reflected off the coffin in the church or graveyard, creating such an impression.
[748] Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, 28 June 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1434.
[749] See Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958–c. 1974 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Francis Beckett, What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do for Us? Why the Children of the Sixties Lived the Dream and Failed the Future (London: Biteback, 2010).
[750] Walsh, “Impact on America,” in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 106–116.
[751] “Defender of the Faith,” Time, 6 December 1963.
[752] Chad Walsh in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 115.
[753] Christianity Today, 20 December 1963.
[754] Tom Wolfe, “The Great Relearning,” in Hooking Up (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000), 140–145.
[755] Source: Publishers Weekly.
[756] Hooper, “A Bibliography of the Writings of C. S. Lewis,” in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 117–148.
[757] Titles of British editions.
[758] Collins was acquired by Rupert Murdoch in 1989. The HarperCollins imprint, under which most Lewis works are now published, was established in 1990.
[759] See, for example, Donald E. Miller, Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).
[760] Pearce, C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church.
[761] George M. Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987).
[762] Roger Steer, Inside Story: The Life of John Stott (Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press, 2009), 103–104.
[763] As noted earlier (page 260), Lewis declined this invitation: Letter to Carl F. H. Henry, 28 September 1955; Letters, vol. 3, 651.
[764] J. I. Packer, “Still Surprised by Lewis,” Christianity Today, 7 September 1998.
[765] For the historical background, see Alister E. McGrath, Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009), 351–372.
[766] David J. Stewart, “C. S. Lewis Was No Christian!” http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/cs_lewis.htm.
[767] John W. Robbins, “Did C. S. Lewis Go to Heaven?” The Trinity Review, November/December 2003, http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=103.
[768] Parsons and Nicholson, “Talking to Philip Pullman.”
[769] Gray, Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth, 171.
[770] Hatlen, “Pullman’s His Dark Materials,” 82.
[771] Oziewicz and Hade, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?”
[772] Royal Mail commissioned research from experts in British folklore and cultural history to determine the eight most appropriate characters to be used. In the end, two were taken from the Harry Potter series, two from the Chronicles of Narnia, two from traditional British folktales, and two from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books.
[773] Selected Literary Essays, 219–220.
[774] John F. Kennedy, address at Amherst College, 26 October 1963, transcript at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Remarks-at-Amherst-College-October-26-1963.aspx.