Walter Hooper

Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949


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      Again thanking you very much,

      Yours very truly,

      C. S. Lewis

       During the course of 1938 the Delegates of the Oxford University Press asked F. P. Wilson to prepare a ‘progress report’ on the Oxford History of English Literature. In his Report to the Delegates, dated 20 December 1938, Wilson said that C. S. Lewis had written to him thus:

      I go on reading and write on each subject while it is fresh in mind. Out of these scattered sheets, perhaps after much correction, I hope to build up a book. The subjects so treated already are Platonism, Douglas, Lyndsay, Tottel, Mulcaster’s Elementarie, Sir Thomas More, Prayer-book, Sidney, Marlowe (non-dramatic), Nashe, Watson, Barclay, Googe, Raleigh (poems), Shakespeare (poems), Webbe; and among other sources Petrarch and Machiavelli.

      [The Kilns]

      Dec. 28th 1938

      Thanks for kind letter. I don’t think letters to authors in praise of their works really require apology for they always give pleasure.

      You are obviously much better informed than I about this type of literature and the only one I can add to your list is Voyage to Arcturus by David Lyndsay (Methuen) wh. is out of print but a good bookseller will prob. get you a copy for about 5 to 6 shillings. It is entirely on the imaginative and not at all on the scientific wing.

      Yrs.

      C. S. Lewis