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Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
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Magdalen College
Oxford
21/6/50
My dear George
I shall be completely alone at the Kilns (but for an ancilla)
(#ulink_940e040f-8dd3-5e9b-be06-66d5e2a5d255) from Aug 11 to Aug 19th and am like to fall into a whoreson melancholy. Can you come and spend all or any of this time with me?
We shall have our days to ourselves except for my calling at the Nursing Home each afternoon: and we can cut that one or two days for all day walks. We cd. read the whole Aeneid
(#ulink_6b35741e-cca8-5af5-967f-f83e608abdec) together. Do if you can. Love to Moira.
Yours
Jack
When Roger Lancelyn Green met Lewis and the other Inklings in the ‘Bird and Baby’ pub for drinks on 22 June, he found proofs of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe being passed around and discussed.
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TO DOM BEDE GRIFFITHS OSB (W): TS
REF.50/258.
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
24th June 1950.
My dear Dom Bede,
Hurrah!
(#ulink_8e6cf19a-a4a0-5cfc-8847-445f6d68b1a0) Come and lunch here on Monday, July 3rd, and let’s talk at length afterwards.
Yours,
C. S. Lewis
The Korean War began on 25 June 1950 when the army of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) opened fire on that of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) south of the 38th Parallel, the line serving as the border between the two countries. This act of aggression was caused byNorth Korea’s concern for security. The Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, was afraid that if he did not take the initiative US forces would put pressure on China along the Yalu River, causing China’s north-eastern defence force to be pinned down. At the same time Southern Manchuria’s power supply (generated from hydroelectric plants in North Korea) would he controlled by hostile forces. This same day–25 June—the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of North Korean forces to north of the 38th Parallel. On 26 June the city of Uijongbu fell to North Korean forces, and the South Korean government left Seoul for Taejon.
TO VERA MATHEWS (W): TS
REF.50/81
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
29th June 1950.
Dear Miss Mathews,
Many thanks for your note of the 24th., and the cheering news which it contains; it is kind of you to send parcels, and a refinement of kindness to keep an eye on our erratic supply markets. We look forward eagerly to the meat, but that is not to say that we shan’t welcome the fruit: for fresh fruit is an absurd price this year.
For once, the all absorbing topic of food has been swept into the background by the dreadful news from the Far East. The only gleam of satisfaction is that all of us feel that your prompt action may still save us from a third war; it has at least saved us from a second Munich, and there are hints in our papers today that Russia will very likely back down—but start probing for a ‘soft spot’ elsewhere: Burma, Cochin-China, or even Europe. One can but pray.
The first two syllables of Taliessin
(#ulink_34dffe92-dd61-53b3-a101-973257f21a61) are pronounced like the Tally in Tally-Ho: and the last two rhyme with guessin or blessin. Broceliande is four syllables with the main accent on the third—Bross-elly-and.
My children’s story will be out this Christmas.
With best thanks and all good wishes,
yours sincerely,
C. S. Lewis
TO EDWARD A. ALLEN (W): TS
REF.50/19.
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
1st July 1950.
My dear Mr. Allen,
Many thanks for your amusing letter of the 19th:–
And for the parcel. Westfield seems to specialize in the export of dress suits, and good quality articles too. My brother asks me to say that yours has been much admired, after he had had it altered to conform to English custom by having the turned up cuffs removed. Will you be good enough to thank Mr. Percival for his kindness?
No cocoa thanks; it is about the only thing we have been able to get in any amount we needed, ever since the beginning of the war. Why this should be so, with tea so short, has always been a great mystery to us, for we raise both these commodities within our own ring fence so to speak.
Pilgrim’s Regress and Silent Planet cost 8/6 over here, which, on the devalued £, should make them very cheap books in America.
Glad to hear you defeated Wormwood about even so trivial a matter as buying a car.
You must all be even more worried than we are by the news from the Far East—which does not bear thinking about. My brother—always an optimist—guesses that the Korean war is a large scale diversion to draw all available American and British forces to that theatre as a preliminary for a southward drive through Persia to the Middle East oilfields in 1951: which in its turn is a preliminary to a Russian ‘liberation’ of Western Europe in 1952.
But to return to Tea. We are actually in the proud position at the moment of having enough to see us through for I reckon the next three months: a position we have never been in before. But when our stock is exhausted, I shall most unblushingly remind you of your kind offer.
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