On 14 March Douglas Gresham (who lives in Ireland now) announced to the MERELEWIS E-mail group: “I have been away lately in London on Jack’s business, and one of the projects we discussed at a meeting with Harper Collins, was the possibility of putting out a Collector’s Limited Edition of the Chronicles of Narnia. This would be a numbered, single Read More ›
When asked recently if he and his brother were included in Lewis’s will, Douglas Gresham answered in C. S. Lewis News “Jack’s will was rather complicated and really nobody’s business but ours.” One of the readers of C. S. Lewis News is Rt Hon Chris Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong and a Lewis admirer. Patten was recently locked in Read More ›
3 December, 1997: “All of us here at the C. S. Lewis Foundation believe our work is of the utmost strategic importance in the battle for the minds and hearts of this generation. And it appears we are not alone in thinking so as a growing number of you have joined with us, through your prayers and financial support, in Read More ›
Although the Lewis literary estate is owned by an investment company incorporated under the laws of Singapore (for tax purposes), and its attorney is reportedly based in Holland, its managing director is a man named Melvin Adams who lives on Church Road in Greystones, a seaside resort in County Wicklow about 20 miles south of Dublin. Telephone 353-1-2875233; fax 353-1-2875236. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis introduced Roger Lancelyn Green to Walter Hooper on 17 June 1963. On 1 August Hooper wrote to Green. Once this letter was delivered, it was Green’s property; and he or his heirs eventually placed it in the Bodleian Library. (If Green had returned the letter to Hooper, it would probably reside in the closed cache of papers Read More ›
by James O’Fee, Belfast ‘Titanic’ will probably be this year’s largest-grossing feature film, and readers may like to consider C. S. Lewis’s links with that ‘ship of dreams’. Jonathan Bardon writes: ‘From the late autumn of 1908 a huge gantry, 228 feet above the slips, dominated the skyline of east Belfast; here Harland and Wolff prepared to build two immense Read More ›
Time: June 19-21, 1998 Location: Seattle Pacific University Seattle, WA This conference will explore the relevance of C. S. Lewis’s writings for the 21st Century. Confirmed speakers: * Peter Kreeft (author of C. S. Lewis for the Third Millenium …) * Phil Johnson (author of Darwin on Trial…) * Tom Howard (author of The Achievement of C. S. Lewis …) Read More ›
The obituary of Owen Barfield in the Daily Telegraph in December appeared below the obituary of Sir Lionel Luckhoo, who died at 83. It described Sir Luckhoo as ambassador for Guyana and Barbados, a Christian evangelist, and the Georgetown, Guyana, lawyer for Jim Jones before he orchestrated the 1978 mass suicide of 900 people (duped by fake healing ceremonies and Read More ›
George Ralph, Lewis lover and Legacy subscriber, has died prematurely and unexpectedly. He will be sorely missed by many at Hope College in Holland MI, where he was a beloved professor of drama. On 29 September 1997 Martin Marty received a National Humanities Award from President Clinton, who said that no one has done more than Marty to explore the Read More ›
Books by Legacy readers Being a Christian in Science by Walter R. Hearn (InterVarsity Press, 1997). Aimed at college students who might consider careers in science, this concise, provocative insider’s overview contains facts and insights to excite any intelligent Christian reader. I, Jesus by Robert Darden (Summit Publishing Group 1997). An imaginative but thoroughly Biblical retelling of the story of Read More ›