Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949. Walter Hooper. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Walter Hooper
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      1. Greek quotations pp 101–107. Make quite sure of the correction in several places: i.e. read Δ (= ‘Delta,’ 4th letter of the Gk. alphabet) for ó.

      2. On p. 228 my note may not be perfectly clear. I want the poem to be spaced like this: [series of eight lines close together, the final one separated by a line or two]

      3. Quotations on pp 11, 31 etc. Ought these to have stops after them? And if so, ought the dashes to be removed? I have put in the stops and not removed the dashes, but am ready to be guided by the printer’s decision as to what is usual in such cases.

      Yours faithfully

      C. S. Lewis

      Address after Monday next,

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.

       TO GUY POCOCK (W):

      Magdalen College.

      Oxford.

      May 4th 1933

      Dear Pocock

      Yes—I heartily approve Derrick’s jacket: but should prefer to see the legend ‘Reason set…up’ omitted, Photo will be sent as soon as taken.

      In haste,

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

      It really is good: quite beyond my hopes. The legend under it however must be omitted, because nothing less like a spurring rider could well be imagined. Anyway it is not needed.

      The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published by J. M. Dent on 25 May 1933.

       TO GUY POCOCK (W):

      MAGDALEN COLLEGE.

      Oxford.

      June 9th 1933

      Dear Pocock

      Could you let me have 4 more copies of P. R. and tell me what I owe you for them?

      I recommend the underlined passage in the enclosed for advertisement use as soon as we get anything on the other side to set beside it,

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

       TO ARTHUR GREEVES (W):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.

      June 13th. 1933

      My dear Arthur,

      You ought to have had a copy of Pilgrim’s Regress from me before now and a letter long before. My six complementary copies turned out to have so many unexpected claimants that I had exhausted them before I knew where I was: some new ones are now on order and I will send you one as soon as they arrive.

      As for letters, they have been rather out of the question. I have never had a busier term—9 to 1 and 5 to 7 every week day and two Sundays completely filled with extra work in the middle of the term: not to mention exams which have now set in and which will keep my nose to the grindstone till the end of July. However I have kept very well and have therefore nothing to complain of—except that I am rather hungry for reading and don’t know when I shall get a few uninterrupted hours again.

      I had an extremely kind letter from Reid about the book. I think it is going to be at least as big a failure as Dymer, and am consequently trying to take to heart all the things I wrote you when you were bowled over by Reid’s decision on your first novel—not entirely without success. How goes the detective story?

      I hardly deserve a letter, but hope you will treat me better than my deserts

      Yours

      Jack

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.

      July 2nd 1933.

      Dear Henn

      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

       Magdalen

      July 21st [1933]

      Dear Miss Shelley,

      Why your literature papers were not better I do not understand. I blame myself for not having exhorted more essays from you—but I doubt if that was the whole cause. You were very short and general. But