A survey of widely varying accounts by Perry Bramlett The actual event took place during the late church service on 21 July 1940 In books about Lewis this event is usually switched to after the early morning service, and the date has been published as 14 July 1940. 15 July 1940, 20 July 1940, and autumn 1942. So far, Light Read More ›
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.” William Hazlitt (1778-1830) “A forger would have no trouble finding paper and ink that are 40 years old” Charles Hamilton, America’s leading autograph expert “Each cover of a true book enfolds the concentrated essence of a man. The personalities of the Read More ›
John Lawlor arrived at Magdalen College, Oxford, in October 1936, and learned that his tutor was named C. S. Lewis.Thirty-seven years later, in November 1963, Lawlor was one of the few people to attend Lewis’s funeral. In 1966 he published Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays ln Memory of C. S. Lewis, a collection of literary essays by friends of Read More ›
In 1995 W. A. Meeuws, Managing Director of Thornton’s bookstore in Oxford, thoughtfully sent me a list of all the books by Lewis that had been translated into foreign languages, including the publisher, location, date, number of pages, and binding. The list included 168 books in 23 languages ranging from Afrikans to Swedish. The language with the most Lewis books Read More ›
By 1969 John Lawlor had become a close friend of Walter Hooper — so close that he gave Hooper strong personal advice about his sexual decisions. On 11 May he wrote “Walter, resist absolutely any notion of your drifting (or being psycho-pressured — a nice touch!) into marriage. The physical indication is the most reliable one we have. It is Read More ›
The following announcement from the new issue of the journal Seven reveals the identity of a key member of the anonymous steering commitee that controls policy and decisions of the Wade Center. The Marion E Wade Center is pleased to announce plans to construct a new Wade Center facility on the campus of Wheaton, College in Illinois. The proposed site Read More ›
(This poem from Spirits in Bondage is about grace, and a precurser of “The Day with a White Mark.”) So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan, So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs the long, material chain From cause to cause, too merciless for hate,The nightmare march of unrelenting fate, I think that Read More ›
by James O’Fee Cunard has decided to award the contract for its latest cruise liner, the Queen Mary II, to a French shipbuilding firm rather than to the Belfast shipbuilders Harland’s and Wolff. This contract was widely regarded as the last hope for Harland’s, whose order-book is empty after June 2000. C. S. Lewis saw Harland’s build the Titanic and Read More ›
In her 2,700-word article about pilgrimage, “Walking Where Lewis Walked,” (Christianity Today, February 2000) Virginia Stem Owens told how her husband got her to reluctantly accompany him on a group C. S. Lewis tour, and how surprised she was to learn that Lewis was only five feet tall. As she put it, much shorter than Anthony Hopkins. (Owens is the Read More ›
by John Bremer In my article “C. S. Lewis and the Ceremonies of Oxford University,” in The Lewis Legacy for Winter 1999, I refer (p.5) to the term Mugger used by Lewis to designate the Master of his college, Univ. It seemed puzzling then, as my note indicates, but clarification is to be found in the diaries of W.H. Lewis, Read More ›