Category Archives: Letters

C.S. Lewis Wasn’t Just Smarter Than Me… Hints on Education from a Remarkable Letter

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

There is some irony in the fact that I’m working hard to get a PhD in C.S. Lewis so that I can teach at a university, when Lewis himself—Professor at Cambridge for nine years and Don at Oxford for thirty—never … Continue reading →

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Letters to an Oxonian Lady: C.S. Lewis’ Relationship with Mary Neylan

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

In a recent trip to the Wade Center, a literary archive of C.S. Lewis and the Inklings in Wheaton, IL, I read an original C.S. Lewis letter to a young student while he was an Oxford don. In June of … Continue reading →

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Lost and Found Writers at the Altars of Hope

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

Stephen King claims in his writing memoir, On Writing, that he used to collect his rejection letters from publishers on a nail in his attic. When the weight of the dozens of rejections became too much for the nail, he … Continue reading →

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Dorothy Sayers’ Sluckdrib Letter: The First Screwtape Copycat

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

In preparing for a paper on teaching The Screwtape Letters for the C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Colloquium at Taylor University this Spring, I thought I had discovered the first Screwtapian letter written by someone other than C.S. Lewis. A … Continue reading →

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Lewis’ Teenage Social Conscience

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

Lewis was no socialist–by the time he was entrenched into Oxford university life after the war, he called them “damn socialists”–but there is a moment in his letters as an 18 year old where we see the hint of social … Continue reading →

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The Glimpse of Joy: C.S. Lewis Discovers George MacDonald

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

This is a letter C.S. Lewis wrote as an 18 year old while at school before going to war. He is writing to his great, childhood friend, Arthur Greeves. Gastons 7 March 1916 Tuesday My dear Galahad, I was very … Continue reading →

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