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Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
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My dear Cecil
I had taken it for granted that you wd. hardly be able to come with Owen: and also that you wd. come if, after all, it shd. be possible. In utrumque paratus.
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It is the apparent strength of my craft and the apparent lightness of yours that make me so vividly aware of the stout captain in the one
(#ulink_ad7e4e40-6abe-54ab-b829-aa214a8c8ca1) and the mere Bellman (see Hunting of Snark) in the other.
(#ulink_29e37b84-64df-5144-b73a-0983d5bfe6d1) One of the bye-products of your news
(#ulink_d8b12183-b4fd-5b3b-adb5-caac834f33ac) was to fill me with shame at the rattled condition in which I then was about troubles quite nugatory compared with yours.
My hand (such as it is and for so far as it can be) is always in yours and Daphne’s. It is terrible to think (and yet how did we ever forget it) that unless in rare cases of simultaneous accident, every marriage ends in something like this.
God bless you all.
Yours
Jack
TO HAROLD GILES DIXEY (BOD):
Magdalen College
Oxford
23/5/50
Dear Mr. Dixey
Thanks for the trouble you took to tell me you liked the Alcaics.
(#ulink_a8a15328-c100-55a7-a786-46ae00de17b7) In a like case I am afraid I shd. have said: ‘I’ll write to that fellow’ and wouldn’t have done it!
Yours sincerely
C. S. Lewis (= N.W.)
Sheppard’s pictures of paperchases etc. were not at all like my memories of joy in youth!
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TO CECIL HARWOOD (BOD):
Magdalen College
Oxford
June 5/50
My dear Cecil
You know about that Trust of mine wh. Owen calls the Agapargyro-meter?
(#ulink_dc10ebfe-f216-579e-b536-78b1e3e66589) If not, v. [ide] the Ramsden chapter in This Ever Diverse Pair.
(#ulink_5b48dd67-f938-51d6-b844-ef16cf4158cd) You must be incurring a good many unusual expenses at present: and there may be other—alleviations—wh. you wd. like to incur for Daphne. Will you please write to Owen (he signs the cheques, not I) for any sums you want? The fund is in a most flourishing condition and there is no reason to stint yourself. You understand that nothing you draw impoverishes me, for all the money in that fund is already given away from me, tho’ the question ‘To whom?’ is answered at my direction from time to time.
We have so ruined the language that it wd. mean nothing if I said it ‘would be a pleasure’. But reverse the positions and yr. imagination will show you how very truly you wd. say, in my place, ‘it wd. be a relief. God bless you both: you are not often out of my mind.
Yours
Jack
TO CECIL HARWOOD (BOD):
Magdalen College
Oxford
9/6/50
My dear Cecil
Good. Dip and spare not.
(#ulink_e0e34071-70b1-5ac0-8586-000ee73e4870) I can indeed imagine the heart-rending pathos of this increasing hope: and have often wondered whether our preference (in art) for the tragic over the pathetic is not partly due to cowardice—that the pathetic is unbearable. Still, one’s past agonies of pity and tenderness don’t fester and corrode in memory as their opposites would.
Still love to both: I wish it were of better quality—I am a hard, cold, black man inside and in my life have not wept enough.
Yours
Jack
TO EDWARD A. ALLEN (W): TS
REF.50/19.
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
10th June 1950.
My dear Mr. Allen,
The precious parcel which your mother mentioned in her last letter has come in safely, and has turned us into capitalists of the richest type. I don’t suppose there is another home in Oxford which contains this fabulous quantity of sugar. Why there should be a shortage of sugar in England is to me a complete mystery: we grow it within the Empire, and at the moment are actually refusing sugar from the West Indies (or so at least the papers say). But who can understand the methods of a government?
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