Collected Letters Volume One: Family Letters 1905–1931

108 (#ulink_a245891f-14fa-529a-95ff-6cb95ad41431) Apollonius Rhodius (c. 295-215 BC), Argonautica.

109 (#ulink_94852726-2eea-516d-b11b-b9ddd34914ce) William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis (1849-50).

110 (#ulink_5f13b771-c193-59e3-8619-7ee0a5a3bd7b) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819), ch. XXI.

111 (#ulink_5f13b771-c193-59e3-8619-7ee0a5a3bd7b) Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-98).

112 (#ulink_5239b90f-c159-55d9-9d7c-109517e8e206) Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872).

113 (#ulink_2f52e754-4343-585c-811a-c4186669090d) ‘The Magic Flute’ (unsigned), The Times Literary Supplement (29 June 1916), pp. 1-2.

114 (#ulink_2f52e754-4343-585c-811a-c4186669090d) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute was first performed in 1791.

115 (#ulink_2f52e754-4343-585c-811a-c4186669090d)Tristan and Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner, was first performed in 1865.

116 (#ulink_3a4873b7-c8bd-5fd3-82cf-0c0efedffdee) Albert’s brother William, with his wife and daughter, were proposing a visit. See The Lewis Family in the Biographical Appendix.

117 (#ulink_d4c0d0bf-4006-5035-b446-98318cfb92bf) Since the beginning of the war, the Ulster Volunteer Force had been gathering momentum, and they had now forced the War Department to accept them as an integral part of the British army

118 (#ulink_206ee05f-f92f-5e3e-a604-f83198972ac9) He was referring to Robert Bridges’ ‘Ode on the Tercentenary Commemoration of Shakespeare’, The Times Literary Supplement (6 July 1916), p. 319.

119 (#ulink_206ee05f-f92f-5e3e-a604-f83198972ac9) Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, Act I. It is Patience who says: ‘Well, it seems to me to be nonsense.’

120 (#ulink_69749c99-a732-5680-9939-31080548d2c1) 2 Kings 5:18.

121 (#ulink_792ff76e-5660-5e89-a7b4-d73ee5f6a3f3)Shakespeare’s Comedy of Twelfth Night, with illustrations by W.H. Robinson [1908].

122 (#ulink_792ff76e-5660-5e89-a7b4-d73ee5f6a3f3) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1601), I, i, 14.

123 (#ulink_02d9d6d7-ccd8-5de2-bd93-590e5287d2ed)The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, modernized and edited by A.W. Pollard (1900).

124 (#ulink_60d61e92-8aa3-523b-b0c5-e590b6c52828) Milton, Paradise Lost, II, 662.

125 (#ulink_7f603f1d-0137-56b0-81f1-1bb87ae317b0) [Valdemar Adolph Thisted], Letters from Hell, Given in English by Julie Sutter, with a Preface by George MacDonald (Richard Bentley & Son 1885; reprinted by Macmillan, 1911). This curious book was first published in Denmark in 1866, and later translated into German. Julie Sutter’s English translation of 1885 was made from the German version. Who knows? the book may have played some part, years later, in the genesis of Lewis’s Screwtape Letters