Photocopies of letters from C.S. Lewis
Single Item
MS. Facs. c. 167
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises letters from Lewis to:
- (fols. 1-7) Eliza Butler, 1940
- (fols. 12-39) T.S. Eliot, 1930-1962, with (fol. 8) a letter from John Bodley to Walter Hooper, 2003; (fol. 9) a letter to Valerie Eliot from Walter Hooper, 2003, and (fols. 10-11) a list of photocopied letters of Lewis to Eliot already in the Bodleian
- (fols. 40-3, 46-7, 50-3) Paul Elmer More, 1934-1935, with (fols. 44-5, 48-9 ) letters from More, copied by Lewis
- (fols. 53-76) Herbert Palmer, 1945-1959, n.d.
- (fol. 77) Lorna Logan (nee Wigney), 1963
- (fol. 78) Jane Douglass, 1960
- (fols. 79-105) Alastair Fowler, 1954-1962, [from originals in the Berg Collection]
- (fols. 106-7) Edmund Blunden, n.d. [copied from originals in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas]
- (fol. 108) Alec Craig, 1949 [copied from originals in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas]
- (fols. 109-10) John Gawsworth, 1960 [but really 1961?] [copied from originals in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas]
- (fols. 111-12) [Kenneth Hopkins?], 1947 [copied from originals in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas]
- (fols. 113-16) J.B. Priestley, 1962 [copied from originals in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas]
- (fols. 117-23) Rev. John Rowland, 1944-1952 [copied from originals in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas]
- (fols. 125-6) Theodora Bosanquet, 1942-1947 [copied from originals in the Houghton Library]
- (fols. 128-30) Rosamond Cruikshank, [c.1959]-1962 [copied from originals in the Houghton Library]
- (fol. 132) Richard Jay Selig, 1954 [copied from originals in the Houghton Library]
- (fol. 134) Jean Thom[p]son, 1958, with (fol. 133) covering letter from Curtis Brown to Walter Hooper, 1994
- (fol. 135) unidentified correspondent [female thesis writer, possibly French], n.d.
- (fols. 136-7) Bonamy Dobrée, 1952-1963
- (fols. 142-77) Mrs Johnson [no further identification], 1952-197, with (fols. 139-40) photocopy of letter from Johnson to Lewis [c.Oct 1952]
- (fols. 178-92 ) Maude McCaslin [later Mrs Eugene L. Ward], 1950-1962
- (fols. 193-4) Priscilla Hillis, 1959, with (fol. 95) a typed transcript by Walter Hooper and (fols. 196-8) correspondence with Henry William Griffin, 1983, (fol. 196) Griffin to Stanley R. Hillis, (fol. 197) Priscilla Hillis to Griffin, and (fol. 198) Griffin to Priscilla Hillis
Dates
- Creation: 1930-1963
Extent
198 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Facs. c. 167, fols. 1-2
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Shelfmark:
MS. Facs. c. 167
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 6062, 6063, 11808, 11809, 11810
Abstract
Photocopies of letters from C.S. Lewis, 1930-1963, n.d., given by Walter Hooper in the course of editing The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, 2000-2007.
Biographical / Historical
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a writer and scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given by Walter Hooper, 2000-2007.
Subject
- Title
- Photocopies of letters from C.S. Lewis
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Original catalogue by Judith Priestman. EAD version by Harriet Costelloe
- Date
- 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk