Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963. Walter Hooper. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Walter Hooper
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had enough of it on the opposite flank lately, having fallen among—a new type to me—bigoted & proselytising Quakers! I really think that in our days it is the ‘undogmatic’ & ‘liberal’ people who call themselves Christians that are most arrogant & intolerant. I expect justice & even courtesy from many Atheists and, much more, from your people: from Modernists, I have come to take bitterness and rancour as a matter of course.

      I might get down to see you some time this year. No chance of your visiting Oxford?

      Yours always

      C. S. Lewis

      

       TO WARHELD M. FIROR(BOD):

      Magdalen etc.

      23/4/51

      Dear Firor

      I guessed what response my news would elicit from your friendly heart and awaited it with mixed pleasure and pain: pleasure because your amazing good will (I am still puzzled as to how I acquired it) is always as cheering as a bright fire on a winter day, pain because I cannot respond as you wd. wish. I have seized my new freedom to get that infernal book on the XVIth Century done, or as nearly done as I can. The College is giving me a year off to do it, but the work can be done only in England, and much less ambitious holidays than a jaunt to America will serve my turn.

      And now to business…I feel twice the man I have been for the last ten years. God bless you.

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

      

      24/4/51

      Dear Colin—

      It must be fun being you.

      Yours

      Jack

      

       TO MARY VAN DEUSEN (W):

      Magdalen College

      Oxford 30/4/51

      Dear Mrs. Van Deusen—

      No, the ‘different trouble’ is not an illness, or not an illness of mine. I could hardly tell you of it without a breach of confidence.

      My holiday was only in a hotel, but in my old country & near the house of an old friend.

      My prayer for Genia (an interesting name, by the way) cd. not naturally take the form you suggest. A little too schematic for my habits: and, to tell you the truth, a little bit like giving God a lecture on Theology!

      As to MacArthur, I don’t feel in a position to have clear opinions about anyone I know only from newspapers. You see, whenever they deal with anyone (or anything) I know myself, I find they’re always a mass of lies & misunderstandings: so I conclude they’re no better in the places where I don’t know.

      Nations being ‘friends’ is only a metaphor: they’re not people, and their co-operation depends, alas, on professional politicians & journalists whom you & I can’t control.

      In fact, as you see, I’m a terrible sceptic about all public affairs. I am inclined to think that your Mac A and our Montgomery are specimens of a new, dangerous, & useful type thrown up by the modern situation–but it’s only a guess.

      In haste. God bless you all.

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

      

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford, May 3rd, 1951.

      Dear Sir,

      Yours truly,

      C. S. Lewis

      

       TO GEORGE SAYER(W):

      Magdalen College

      Oxford 5/5/51

      I had no notion of all this oriental background to you–barbaric pearl & gold.

      Glad to hear the illness was not serious. Any chance of a night or week-end later? I needn’t say how welcome you’d be.

      J.

      Love to both from both.

      

       TO AN ANONYMOUS GENTLEMAN (P): TS

      REF.236/51

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.