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Автор: Walter Hooper
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time, and my own Ireland generally lures me to it when I can take a holiday.

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

       TO ROGER IANCELYN GREEN (BOD):

      Magdalen College

      Oxford May 1/52

      I think the Bournemouth Lecture was a success. One librarian said I had almost converted him to fairy-tales, he having hitherto taken the ‘real life’ stuff for granted.

      J.

      

       TO MARY VAN DEUSEN (W):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford May 5th 1952

      Dear Mrs. Van Deusen

      About the high-low quarrels in the Church, whatever the merits of the dispute are, the ‘heat’ is simply and solely Sin, and I think parsons ought to preach on it from that angle.

      By the way, the ‘conversation-piece’ by Paul & Mini is really excellent. I hope you will all go on having a lovely time. God bless you all.

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

      

       TO NELL BERNERS-PRICE (W): TS

      REF.52/205.

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford. 6th May 1952.

      Dear Mrs. Berners-Price,

      Yours gratefully,

      C. S. Lewis

      Sir,–

      The authorship of The Sheepheards Slumber (No. 133 in Englands Helicon, beginning ‘In Pescod time, when Hound to Home’) is not stated in any edition that I have been able to consult. The poem will be found in A pleasaunte Laborinth called Churchyardes Chance etc. London. Ihon Kyngston 1580. It is there entitled A matter of fonde Cupid, and vain Venus.

      C. S. Lewis

      

       TO NELL BERNERS-PRICE (W):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford. May 9th 1952

      Dear Mrs Berners Price

      Thanks to you and your husband the trial now looms so small in the total adventure that I feel more like a man back from a holiday than a witness released from the box: not that it was a box, neither, being more like a nursery fender.

      The actual scene in court was horrid. I never saw Justice at work before, and it is not a pretty sight. Any creature, even an animal, at bay, surrounded by its enemies, is a dreadful thing to see: one felt one was committing a sort of indecency by being present. What did impress me was the absence of any resentment or vindictiveness on the part of the witnesses: you two victims especially were, I thought, getting v. high marks. But, as I say, what I really remember most is a delightful visit to very nice people in a charming house. I am sorry I left my kind host without even a hand-shake: but my doom was upon me.

      May I now book a room at Courtstairs (in the ordinary way) for the night of May 18th? I think Walsh said he wd. drive us to Canterbury on the morning of the 19th. I expect I can get on from Canterbury on the afternoon of the 19th.

      Yours sincerely

      C. S. Lewis

      

       TO ‘MRS LOCKLEY (L):

      [Magdalen College]

      13/5/52

      Dear ‘Mrs Lockley’

      It wd. seem then that the only question is whether you can divorce your husband in such a sense as wd. make you free to re-marry. I imagine that nothing is further from your thoughts. I believe that you are free as a Christian woman to divorce him especially since the refusal to do so does harm to the innocent children of his mistress: but that you must (or should) regard yourself as no more free to marry another man than if you had not divorced him. But remember I’m no authority on such matters, and I hope you will ask the advice of one or two sensible clergymen of our own Church.

      Our own Vicar whom I have just rung up, says that there are Anglican theologians who say that you must not divorce him. His own view was that in doubtful cases the Law of Charity shd. always be the over-riding consideration, and in a case such as yours charity directs you to divorce him…

       TO NELL BERNERS-PRICE (W):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford May 14th 1952

      Dear