Letters to and from C.S. Lewis, and other family correspondence
Single Item
MS. Eng. c. 6825, fols. 84-120
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- (fols. 84-90) photocopies of letters from Lewis to E.L. Baxter, 1947
- (fols. 91-3) carbon typescript letter to Lewis from James Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, 1947, with (fol. 93v) a holograph draft of Lewis’s reply.
- (fols. 94-5) typescript letter to Lewis from Raymond Priestley, University of Birmingham,1939
- (fols. 96-7) letter from Revd. Gerard Holmes Gore to Lewis, 1940
- (fols. 98-9) letter from Clement Webb to Lewis, 1941
- (fol. 100) letter from Revd. M.A.C. Warren to Lewis, 1941
- (fol. 101) typescript letter from Gilbert Murray to Lewis, 1942
- (fol. 102) typescript letter from G.M. Trevelyan to Lewis, 1943
- (fol. 103) typescript letter from David Randall Pye to Lewis, 1945
- (fol. 104) letter from Hugh Montefiore to Lewis, [1955?]
- (fols. 105-6) typescript letter to Lewis from David Marsh, 1962, concerning the libretto for a projected opera based on Perelandra
- (fols.107-8) autograph letter from Lewis to William Lewis Kinter, 19 Feb 1963
- (fol. 109) letter to Lewis from Mary Baker, a friend of Flora Lewis, 1943
- (fols. 110-11) letter to Lewis from his uncle, Augustus Warren Hamilton, 1938, concerning Out of the Silent Planet
- (fols. 112-18) typescript letters from William Lindsay Gresham to his son, David, 1960-1961
- (fols. 119-20) a printed programme for the forty-eighth annual dinner of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott club, 2 March 1956, annotated by Lewis
Dates
- Creation: 1938-1962
Extent
37.0 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. c. 6825, fols. 84-5].
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Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. c. 6825, fols. 84-120
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 11864
Abstract
Letters to and from C.S. Lewis, and other family correspondence
Biographical / Historical
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British writer and academic, well known for The Chronicles of Narnia. Together with fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis was active in the Inklings, an Oxford literary group.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given by Walter Hooper, 19 September 2001. Fols. 94-120 were originally given to Hooper by Warren Lewis.
Topical
Subject
- Title
- Letters to and from C.S. Lewis, and other family correspondence
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Original catalogue by Judith Priestman. EAD version by Rachael Gardner
- Date
- 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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