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665 Davidman, Out of My Bone, 139.
666 Davidman’s Certificate of Registration, No. A 607299, under the Aliens Order (1920) is held at the Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL: Joy Davidman Papers 1-14.
667 Also referred to as the “Agape Fund” in some documents. Barfield closed the fund in 1968, when all the funds had been disbursed according to Lewis’s general directions.
668 Ceplair and Englund, The Inquisition in Hollywood, 361–397.
669 See Gibb’s letter to Lewis, 18 February 1955; MS Facs. B. 90 fol. 2, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
670 Davidman, Out of My Bone, 242.
671 Letter to Anne Scott, 26 August 1960; Letters, vol. 3, 1181.
672 J. R. R. Tolkien to Christopher Bretherton, 16 July 1964; Tolkien, Letters, 349.
673 Correspondence, Joy Davidman Papers 1-14, Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
674 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 30 October 1955; Letters, vol. 3, 669.
675 Jacobs, The Narnian, 275.
676 Lewis’s letters to Shelburne were published in 1967 as Letters to an American Lady (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1967).
677 Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne, 25 December 1958; Letters, vol. 3, 1004. For the regulatory change, see Paul Addison and Harriet Jones, A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939–2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 465.
678 Letter to Ruth Pitter, 9 July 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 769.
679 Letter to Ruth Pitter, 14 July 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 771.
680 Mrs. Moore’s will was executed by Barfield & Barfield Solicitors on 16 July 1951.
681 A. N. Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 266.
682 R. E. Head, OH/SR-15, fols. 14-5, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
683 Tolkien uses this form of reference in a letter to his son Christopher, dated 13 April 1944; Tolkien, Letters, 71.
684 Letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, 25 June 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 861–862. Lewis’s The Four Loves, written around this time, explores this theme in more detail.
685 Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, 16 November 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 808.
686 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 25 November 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 812.
687 Letter to Katharine Farrer, 25 October 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 801.
688 The most interesting of these appeared in the Daily Mail on 26 October 1956, which reported a rumour—hastily denied by Lewis—that he was due to marry a forty-six-year-old antique dealer in London the following day.
689 Lewis refers to this announcement in a letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, written on the day on which it appeared: “You may see in the Times a notice of my marriage to Joy Gresham.” Letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, 24 December 1956; Letters, vol. 3, 819. Wilson incorrectly dates this “notice” to 22 March 1957: Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 263–264.
690 For this episode, see Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, 631–635.
691 Letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, 25 June 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 861.
692 Hooper, C. S. Lewis: The Companion and Guide, 82, 633. Bide related much the same story to the present author at Oxford in 1978.
693 He did. Sadly, Bide’s wife, Margaret, died of cancer in September 1960. Bide subsequently returned to Oxford as chaplain and tutor in theology at Lady Margaret Hall from 1968–1980.
694 Letter to Sheldon Vanauken, 27 November 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 901.
695 The (slightly perplexed) comment of Nevill Coghill, in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 63.
696 Letter to Jessie M. Watt, 28 August 1958; Letters, vol. 3, 966–967.
697 The Four Loves, 21.
698 Tom Clark and Andrew Dilnot, Long-Term Trends in British Taxation and Spending (London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2002).
699 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 25 March 1959; Letters, vol. 3, 1033.
700 Letter to Chad Walsh, 22 October 1959; Letters, vol. 3, 1097.
701 Full details in Green and Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, 271–276.
702 A Grief Observed, 38.
703 Ibid., 3.
704 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 30 May 1916; Letters, vol. 1, 187.
705 T. S. Eliot to Spencer Curtis Brown, 24 October 1960; MS Eng. lett. C. 852, fol. 62, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
706 Letter to Laurence Whistler, 4 March 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1320.
707 Surprised by Joy, x.
708 The Problem of Pain, xii.
709 A Grief Observed, 5–6.
710 Letter to Sister Penelope, 5 June 1951; Letters, vol. 3, 123.
711 A Grief Observed, 52.
712 Letter to Sister Madeleva, CSC, 3 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1460.
713 A Grief Observed, 44.
714 Ibid.
715 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 27 June 1961; Letters, vol. 3, 1277.
716 Lewis had known Barfield and Harwood since the 1920s and went on annual walking tours with both men. See Lewis’s comments in Surprised by Joy, 231–234. Miracles was dedicated to Harwood and his wife, The Allegory of Love to Barfield.
717 Laurence Harwood was the second son of Cecil Harwood; Lucy Barfield was Owen Barfield’s adopted daughter. Lewis had earlier dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to her. Sarah Neylan, who married Christopher Patrick Tisdall on 31 December 1960, was the daughter of Mary Neylan, to whom Lewis had dedicated his George MacDonald anthology.
718 Letter to Francis Warner, 6 December 1961; Letters, vol. 3, 1301–1302.
719 Published posthumously as Spenser’s Images of Life (1967).
720 Letter to J. R. R. Tolkien, 20 November 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1382.
721 Letter to Phoebe Hesketh, 14 June 1960; Letters, vol. 3, 1162.
722 Letter to Alastair Fowler, 7 January 1961; Letters, vol. 3, 1223–1224.
723 Andreas Ekström, “Greene tvåa på listan 1961” Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 3 January 2012. The Nobel archives are embargoed to the public for fifty years.
724 Letter to the Nobel Committee for Literature, 16 January 1961, held in the archives of the Swedish Academy, released to the author on request.
725 Letter to Cecil Roth, 20 March 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1323.
726 Letter to Evelyn Tackett, 23 May 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1428.
727 Letter to Walter Hooper, 2 December 1957; Letters, vol. 3, 902–903.
728 Letter to Walter Hooper, 15 December 1962; Letters, vol. 3, 1393–1394.
729 On the reasons for the move, see Lewis’s letter to Roger Lancelyn Green, 28 January 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1408–1409. The Eagle and Child was registered as a Grade II Listed Building in December 1954. This prevented any alterations to its external appearance, but not to certain parts of its interior.
730 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 July 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1440.
731 Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, 15 July 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1442.
732 Walter Hooper wrote two reports of Lewis’s time in the Acland, both mentioning these specific dates and times; Walter Hooper to Roger Lancelyn Green, 5 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1445–1446; and Walter Hooper to Mary Willis Shelburne, 10 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1447–1448.
733 Letter to Cecil Harwood, 29 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1452.
734 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 September 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1456.
735 Walter Hooper to Mary Willis Shelburne, 10 August 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1448.
736 Sayer, Jack, 404–405.
737 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 September 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1455.
738 Letter to Walter Hooper, 20 September 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1457.
739 David had moved to a Talmudical college in New York, and was short of money: see Lewis’s letter to Jeannette Hopkins, 18 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1465.
740 Letter to Walter Hooper, 11 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1461–1462.
741 For most of 1964—when Hooper’s proposed employment would begin—£1 converted to $2.80. The sterling crisis of 1964–1967 was yet to come.
742 Letter to
Walter Hooper, 23 October 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1469–1470.
743 W. H. Lewis, “C. S. Lewis: A Biography,” 468.
744 Ibid., 470.
745 R. E. Head, OH/SR-15, fol. 13, Wade Center Oral History Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
746 Earlier that year, Maureen had inherited the title of Baronetess of Hempriggs, and was generally known as “Dame Maureen Dunbar.”
747 Contrary to some accounts, there was no candle on Lewis’s coffin. Ronald Head, who organised and led the funeral, suggested that the acolytes’ candles may have reflected off the coffin in the church or graveyard, creating such an impression.
748 Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, 28 June 1963; Letters, vol. 3, 1434.
749 See Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958–c. 1974 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Francis Beckett, What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do for Us? Why the Children of the Sixties Lived the Dream and Failed the Future (London: Biteback, 2010).
750 Walsh, “Impact on America,” in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 106–116.
751 “Defender of the Faith,” Time, 6 December 1963.
752 Chad Walsh in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 115.
753 Christianity Today, 20 December 1963.
754 Tom Wolfe, “The Great Relearning,” in Hooking Up (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000), 140–145.
755 Source: Publishers Weekly.
756 Hooper, “A Bibliography of the Writings of C. S. Lewis,” in Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis, 117–148.
757 Titles of British editions.
758 Collins was acquired by Rupert Murdoch in 1989. The HarperCollins imprint, under which most Lewis works are now published, was established in 1990.
759 See, for example, Donald E. Miller, Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).
760 Pearce, C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church.
761 George M. Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987).
762 Roger Steer, Inside Story: The Life of John Stott (Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press, 2009), 103–104.
763 As noted earlier (page 260), Lewis declined this invitation: Letter to Carl F. H. Henry, 28 September 1955; Letters, vol. 3, 651.
764 J. I. Packer, “Still Surprised by Lewis,” Christianity Today, 7 September 1998.
765 For the historical background, see Alister E. McGrath, Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009), 351–372.
766 David J. Stewart, “C. S. Lewis Was No Christian!” http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/cs_lewis.htm.
767 John W. Robbins, “Did C. S. Lewis Go to Heaven?” The Trinity Review, November/December 2003, http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=103.
768 Parsons and Nicholson, “Talking to Philip Pullman.”
769 Gray, Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth, 171.
770 Hatlen, “Pullman’s His Dark Materials,” 82.
771 Oziewicz and Hade, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?”
772 Royal Mail commissioned research from experts in British folklore and cultural history to determine the eight most appropriate characters to be used. In the end, two were taken from the Harry Potter series, two from the Chronicles of Narnia, two from traditional British folktales, and two from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books.
773 Selected Literary Essays, 219–220.
774 John F. Kennedy, address at Amherst College, 26 October 1963, transcript at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Remarks-at-Amherst-College-October-26-1963.aspx.
INDEX
A
Abolition of Man, The 231, 368
Adams, Walter 204, 259
Addison’s Walk, Magdalen College 147–148
Aldwinckle, Stella 250–252, 259
Allegory of Love, The 167, 182–186, 231, 302
Anscombe, Elizabeth 252–259
Arnold, Matthew 16, 180
Aslan 267, 271, 273, 278, 281–282, 287–296, 302, 305
Atonement 292–296, 365
Attlee, Clement 69
Auden, W. H. 17, 264
Augustine of Hippo 104, 202, 302
B
Ballard Lectures, Bangor 229
Barfield, Owen 102–103, 120, 143–144, 176, 183–184, 187, 314, 325, 348, 359, 375
Barry, Canon John 120–121
Baxter, Richard 172, 219–220
Baynes, Pauline 265, 268, 270–271, 286
Belfast, Northern Ireland 4–6, 9–10, 13–14, 94, 120–121
Bennett, Henry Stanley 311
Betjeman, John 17, 118
Bide, Peter 335–338
Blake, Maureen (née Moore, later Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs) 58, 66, 84, 86, 91, 96–98, 100, 125, 127, 194, 245–246, 265, 333, 348, 359
British Academy 186, 239, 249
British Broadcasting Corporation 205–206, 209–212, 218, 239, 259, 310, 316
broadcast talks 13, 205, 208, 210, 212–213, 215, 218–219, 227–228, 239, 260, 292–293, 321, 330, 369–370
Brooke, Rupert 63
Bunyan, John 169
C
Calabria, Don Giovanni 248, 258–259
Cambridge University 101, 118, 260, 310–320, 348, 350, 352, 356, 369
Campbell College, Belfast 27–28, 35
Carpenter, Harry 335, 337
Carritt, Edgar F. 86, 89, 106
Carroll, Lewis 275, 369, 376
Cecil, Lord David 243
Chambers, Sir Edmund 180
Cherbourg School, Malvern 26, 28–30
Chesterton, G. K. 132, 225, 279, 370, 375
Churchill Hospital 337
Churchill, Winston 248
Clark Lectures, Cambridge 229, 231–232, 316
Claypole, Gerald Henry 54–56
Coghill, Nevill 104, 109–110, 175–176
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 104, 143
Colson, Charles “Chuck” Wendell 373
Curtis Brown, Spencer 326, 342–343
D
Dante Alighieri 135, 183
Davenport, Richard 288
Davidman, Joy 9, 194, 229, 305, 320–340, 341–347, 350, 352
Dent, J. M. 169
de Pass, Denis Howard 58
Discarded Image, The 167, 302, 320
Dulles, Cardinal Avery 370
Dymer 91, 106–108, 169, 201
Dyson, Hugo 147–149, 151, 175, 176, 200, 281
E
Eagle and Child, The (public house) 179, 181, 242, 249, 353, 369
Eliot, T. S. 106–107, 132, 158, 171, 343
Empson, William 166
English Language and Literature at Oxford University 98–100
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama 231–232, 248, 302, 310
Everlasting Man, The (G. K. Chesterton) 225, 279
Experiment in Criticism, An 320
F
Faber & Faber (publishers) 342–343
Farquharson, A. S. L. 100, 106, 110
Farrer, Austin 203, 210, 222, 259, 320, 341, 355, 359
Farrer, Katharine 178, 355
Fenn, Eric 207, 209–210, 213
Foord-Kelcey, Edward 155
Four Loves, The 73, 178, 317, 320, 328, 339, 340, 341
Fowler, Alastair 351
Fox, Adam 180–181
Freud, Sigmund 147
G
Gabbitas & Thring 17, 28, 40
Gardner, Helen 186, 248, 250, 311–313
Geoffrey Bles (publisher) 212, 217, 326, 342
Gordon, George 104, 109–110, 192
Graham, Billy 372–373
Grahame, Kenneth 289, 376
Graves, Robert 63
Great Divorce, The 10, 232, 323
Great Malvern 28, 30
Green, Roger Lancelyn 328–329, 340, 342, 369
&nb
sp; Greene, Graham 132–133, 352
Greeves, Arthur 35–37, 42–43, 54, 61–63, 67, 70–74, 84, 102, 143, 144, 148–149, 155, 158, 169, 204, 246, 259, 330, 334, 348, 354, 355
Gresham, David 352
Gresham, Douglas 323, 354, 357, 359
Grief Observed, A 204, 341–347
Griffiths, Dom Bede 210
H
Haldane, J. B. S. 234–236, 252–253
Hamilton, Thomas 7
Harwood, Arthur Cecil 348, 355, 367
Havard, Robert E. 180, 320, 333, 350
Head, Ronald Edwin 359
Henry, Carl F. H. 260, 372–373