3 See “The Nativity” in Lewis’s Poems.
She had left the Episcopal Church to become a Roman Catholic.
Eldils are beings in Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength.
See “The Nativity” in Lewis’s Poems.
Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength.
Le Lion et la Sorcière Blanche, the French translation of Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Perhaps a reference to his inaugural lecture at Cambridge, De Descriptione Temporum.
Of Lewis’s autobiography Surprised by Joy.
A picture of Lewis as he was lighting his pipe.
See “Sir Walter Scott,” in Lewis’s They Asked for a Paper.
Till We Have Faces.
Surprised by Joy.
He means that the English legal system prevents him from sending her money.
Cf. paragraph three of Lewis’s essay “The Efficacy of Prayer.” Also his letter of January 26, 1959.
“Shall We Lose God in Outer Space?”
Doubtless a reference to Reflections on the Psalms.
Probably Studies in Words.
Owen Barfield, solicitor and lifetime friend of Lewis.
He was leaving for a year in Palestine.
A ball-point pen.
St. Francis’ expression for the body.
For some time Lewis had been having his American publisher send her a small monthly stipend.
Cf. the chapter “Animal Pain” in Lewis’s The Problem of Pain.
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.
Pope John XXIII.
Lewis was himself to experience a little more than a month later the unhappy closing of death’s bright door before he could reach it. See letters of July 27 and August 10.
This letter is in the handwriting of Walter Hooper, who explains that the two voices are owing to an interruption during the dictation of the letter and his posting it before the error was noticed.
Lewis sometimes used these initials when referring to his brother.