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Title of Collection: C. S. Lewis Collection

Date Range: 1865-2011

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Finding Aid Created By: Kendra Smalley, Special Collections Assistant

Last Revised: June 25, 2021

Collection Details

Collection Description

The C. S. Lewis Collection features a variety of books and articles by and about Lewis (1898-

1963). It also includes letters and manuscripts written by Lewis, as well as rare and first editions

of his books.

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Collection Inventory

Table references to C. S. Lewis are abbreviated as CSL

“n.d.” indicates publication date unknown

“n.a.” indicates author name is unknown

“n.t.” indicates the title is unknown or non-existent

Please note that “inscribed” could indicate a signature and/or other inscription or annotations

Any materials that are entirely identical copies are listed under a single entry with the total number of copies.

Materials that vary due to inscriptions are listed under separate entries.

Series 1: First and Rare Editions

This series consists of various original and special editions of works by C. S. Lewis, including

books and published booklets. This series is divided into two subseries by languages, and items

within each subseries are organized by publication date.

Series 1A: Books in English

Series 1B: Books in Other Languages

Series 2: Letters and Manuscripts

This series contains documents handwritten or typed by C. S. Lewis, as well as by his older

brother, Warren H. “Warnie” Lewis. Letters written by either or both of the Lewis brothers to

June/Jill Flewett-Freud are included in the subseries “Letters to June Flewett-Freud,” and letters

written to Lewis’ student Mary Neylan are in the subseries “Letters to Mary Neylan.” This series

is organized into four subseries by types, and items within the subseries are organized by date

written.

Series 2A: Letters to June Flewett-Freud

Series 2B: Letters to Mary Neylan

Series 2C: Letters to Other Recipients

Series 2D: Manuscripts

Series 3: Articles, Lectures, Serials, and Other Contributions by C. S. Lewis

This series contains various news clippings, introductions, anthologized essays, and poems by

C. S. Lewis. Books edited or compiled by Lewis are also listed here. This series is organized into

two subseries by type, and items within the subseries are organized by date published.

Series 3A: Articles, Lectures, and Serial Contributions

Series 3B: Books Edited, Prefaced, or Introduced

Series 4: Works Inscribed by C. S. Lewis

This series contains books that were inscribed or annotated by C. S. Lewis. This series is

organized by author’s last name.


Series 5: Books by C. S. Lewis’s Family

This series contains books written by members of C. S. Lewis’s family, including his wife, Joy

Davidman, and older brother, Warren H. Lewis. This series is organized by date published.

Series 6: Scholarship and Other Sources

This series contains various essays, reflections, biographies, and analyses of the life and works

of C. S. Lewis, chiefly after his death. Reviews of his published works written by his

contemporaries are also included here. This series is organized by date published, with the

exception of subseries 6C, which is organized by artist’s last name.

Series 6A: Letters Written by Others

Series 6B: Scholarship and Other Sources

Series 6C: Images of C. S. Lewis



Series 1: First and Rare Editions


Book Title Date Additional Details Ref. ID

The Horse and His Boy n.d. 1067

The Horse and His Boy: A

Story for Children

n.d. Advance proof; notes written to Ed

Brown by Pauline Baynes and Douglas

Gresham

888


Story for Children

n.d. Owned by Penelope Berners-Price;

inscribed by Pauline Baynes

873

The Humanitarian Theory

of Punishment

n.d. 388

The Last Battle n.d. 1069

The Lion, the Witch, and

the Wardrobe: A Story for

Children

n.d. 1063

The Magician’s Nephew:

A Story for Children

n.d. First American printing 885

A Note on Comus n.d. Vol. 8, no. 30; reprinted from The Review

of English Studies, April 1932

390

Perelandra n.d. 975

Prince Caspian n.d. 1064

Prince Caspian: Return to

Narnia: A Story for

Children

n.d. Inscribed by CSL to Penelope Berners-

Price; inscribed by Pauline Baynes

871

The Silver Chair n.d. 1066

The Trouble with X n.d. 298

Vivisection n.d. The National Anti-Vivisection Society 299

The Voyage of the Dawn

Treader

n.d. 1065


Treader: A Story for

Children

n.d. Owned by Penelope Berners-Price;


872

The Weight of Glory n.d. Little Books on Religion No. 189 (Society

for Promoting Christian Knowledge)

303

Will We Lose God in

Outer Space?

n.d. 1055

Spirits in Bondage 1919 1052

Series 1A: Books in English, continued


Dymer 1926 Published under Clive Hamilton 1019

Dymer 1926 Published under Clive Hamilton 894

A Note on Comus 1932 (Apr) Vol. 8, no. 30; reprinted from The Review

of English Studies, April 1932

390

The Pilgrim’s Regress 1933 982





The Allegory of Love: A

Study in Medieval

Tradition

1936 Inscribed by Owen Barfield 849

The Allegory of Love: A

Study in Medieval

Tradition

1938 Reprinted with corrections 850

Out of the Silent Planet 1938 973

The Personal Heresy: A

Controversy

1939 977

Rehabilitations and Other

Essays

1939 995

The Problem of Pain 1940 991

Perelandra 1942 Uncorrected proof 976

A Preface to Paradise Lost 1942 989

A Preface to Paradise Lost 1942 990

The Screwtape Letters 1942 997

Broadcast Talks:

Reprinted with some

alterations from two

series of Broadcast Talks

1942 (Jul) Right and Wrong: A Clue to the Meaning

of the Universe and What Christians

Believe; given in 1941 and 1942

859

The Abolition of Man 1943 Full subtitle: “or Reflections on Education

with Special Reference to the Teaching of

English in the Upper Forms of Schools”; 2

copies

296,

866

The Case for Christianity 1943 860

The Case for Christianity 1943 854

Christian Behaviour 1943 (Mar) First edition; 2 copies 861,

1216



Christian Behaviour 1943 (Jun) First edition; third printing 858

Christian Behaviour 1943 First printing 856





The Screwtape Letters 1943 998

Beyond Personality 1944 First edition 1213

Beyond Personality: The

Christian Idea of God

1944 857

Perelandra: A Novel 1944 First American printing 974





1945 First printing 855

The Great Divorce 1945 (Nov) First edition; 2 copies 639,

920

The Screwtape Letters 1945 First Canadian edition 999

That Hideous Strength: A

Modern Fairy-Tale for

Grown-Ups

1945 1013

George MacDonald: An

Anthology

1946 Inscribed by CSL with personal note to

Mary Neylan

917

George MacDonald: An

Anthology

1946 First edition, 2 copies 687,

918

The Great Divorce 1946 921

That Hideous Strength 1946 1014

The Tortured Planet (That

Hideous Strength)

1946 2 copies 945, 1056

The Abolition of Man 1947 Full subtitle: “or Reflections on Education

with Special Reference to the Teaching of

English in the Upper Forms of School”

1020

Miracles 1947 966

Miracles: A Preliminary

Study

1947 First edition; 2 copies 965, 967

The Screwtape Letters 1947 Australian edition 1000



Out of the Silent Planet 1949 2 copies 942, 946

Out of the Silent Planet 1949 2 copies 1053, 1342

Transposition and other

Addresses

1949 1025

The Weight of Glory, and

Other Addresses

1949 1029

Dymer: A Poem 1950 895

The Literary Impact of the

Authorised Version

1950 First British edition 1368



Children

1950 First American printing 877



Children

1950 Inscribed by CSL to Penelope Berners-

Price; inscribed by Pauline Baynes

870

Perelandra: World of the

New Temptation

1950 2 copies 943, 944


Authorised Version

1950

(Mar 20)

955

Prince Caspian: The

Return to Narnia: A Story

for Children


Mere Christianity 1952 Full subtitle: “A revised and amplified

edition, with a new Introduction, of the

three books Broadcast Talks, Christian

Behaviour, [and] Beyond Personality”

958

Mere Christianity 1952 Inscribed by Joy Davidman, noting book

was given to her by CSL; full subtitle: “A

revised and amplified edition, with a new

Introduction, of the three books

Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour,

[and] Beyond Personality”

959



Mere Christianity 1952 First American printing; full subtitle: “A

revised and enlarged edition, with a new

introduction, of the three books The Case

for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and

Beyond Personality”

960



Children

1952 880



Children

1952 879

The Silver Chair: A Story

for Children

1953 881

The Silver Chair: A Story

for Children

1953 Owned by Penelope Berners-Price;


874

English Literature in the

Sixteenth Century

1954 898


Sixteenth Century

1954 897


Sixteenth Century

excluding drama

1954 899


Sixteenth Century

excluding drama

1954 896


Story for Children

1954 First American printing; review copy 882


Story for Children


The Weight of Glory 1954 Fifth reprint 301

De Descriptione

Temporum

1955 Inaugural lecture of University of

Cambridge; given Nov. 29, 1954

1210

De Descriptione

Temporum

1955 Inaugural lecture of University of

Cambridge; given Nov. 29, 1954

314

The Last Battle: A Story

for Children

1955 Advance proof 887







875




Mark vs. Tristram 1990 Subtitle: “Correspondence between C. S.

Lewis & Owen Barfield”

1345

Surprised by Joy:

Conversion Story

1955 Proof copy 1011

Surprised by Joy: The

Shape of My Early Life

1955 1010



1955 1012



1955 1009


for Children



for Children


inscribed by CSL and Pauline Baynes

876

Till We Have Faces 1956 941

Till We Have Faces 1956 1024

Till We Have Faces: A

Myth Retold

1956 1023


The Efficacy of Prayer 1958 Fourth reprint 297

The Efficacy of Prayer 1958 Thirteenth reprint, 2 copies 467,

868

Miracles: A Preliminary

Study

1958 636

Reflections on the Psalms 1958 993



The Weight of Glory 1958 Fourth reprint 302



1959 863

The Four Loves 1960 913






Studies in Words: Nature,

sad, wit, free, sense,

simple, conscious,

conscience

1960 1008

The World’s Last Night

and Other Essays

1960 1030

An Experiment in

Criticism

1961 [908

An Experiment in

Criticism

1961 909

An Experiment in

Criticism

1961 910

The Screwtape Letters

and Screwtape Proposes a

Toast

1961 1001

The Screwtape Letters

and Screwtape Proposes a

Toast

1961 1002

Answers to Questions on

Christianity

1944

(Apr 18)

Answers given at “One Man Brains Trust;

mailing note inserted

300

They Asked for a Paper 1962 1015

They Asked for a Paper 1962 1016

Beyond the Bright Blur 1963 First edition 864

The Discarded Image: An

Introduction to Medieval

and Renaissance

Literature

1963 Uncorrected proof 893

A Grief Observed 1963 923

A Grief Observed 1963 Published under N. W. Clerk 924


Authorised Version

1963 956

The Discarded Image: An

Introduction to Medieval

and Renaissance

Literature

1964 892



Letters to Malcolm:

Chiefly on Prayer

1964 947

Letters to Malcolm:

Chiefly on Prayer

1964 948

Letters to Malcolm:

Chiefly on Prayer

1964 Includes letter from Jocelyn Gibb inserted

into book

949

Letters to Malcolm:

Chiefly on Prayer

1964 950

Poems 1964 Inscribed by Walter Hooper 987

Poems 1965 First American edition 988

Letters of C. S. Lewis 1966 Review copy 934

Letters of C. S. Lewis 1966 Mary Neylan’s copy; includes letter from

CSL (Ref. ID 24)

936

Letters of C. S. Lewis 1966 First American edition 1226

Letters of C. S. Lewis 1966 933

Letters of C. S. Lewis:

Edited, with a Memoir

1966 935

Of Other Worlds: Essays

and Stories

1966 970

Of Other Worlds: Essays

and Stories

1966 971

Studies in Medieval &

Renaissance Literature

1966 1006

Christian Reflections 1967 869

Christian Reflections 1967 Inscribed by Walter Hooper (editor) 865

Letters to an American

Lady

1967 937

Letters to an American

Lady

1967 938

Spenser’s Images of Life 1967 1005

A Mind Awake: An

Anthology of C. S. Lewis

1968 963

A Mind Awake: An


1969 First American edition 965

A Mind Awake: An



Narrative Poems 1969 Inscribed by Walter Hooper (editor) 968



Narrative Poems 1969 969

Out of the Silent Planet 1969 Tenth impression 1062

Selected Literary Essays 1969 1003

God in the Dock: Essays

on Theology and Ethics

1970 Inscribed by Walter Hooper 919


Authorised Version

1950

(Mar 20)

957


Authorised Version

1950

(Mar 20)

955

Perelandra 1971 637

Undeceptions 1971 1027

Undeceptions: Essays on

Theology and Ethics

1971 1026

The Dark Tower & Other

Stories

1977 Inscribed by Walter Hooper (editor) 890


Stories

1977 889


Stories

1977 Uncorrected advance proof 891

The Joyful Christian: 127

Readings

1977 930

The Weight of Glory 1977 “Published especially for the Southern

California C. S. Lewis Society”; no. 142 of

250

304

They Stand Together: The

Letters of C. S. Lewis to

Arthur Greeves

(1914-1963)

1979 1017



Arthur Greeves

(1914-1963)

1979 Uncorrected advance proof 1018



Arthur Greeves

(1914-1963)

1979 1022



At the Breakfast Table

and Other Reminiscences

1980 First British edition 1224

The Visionary Christian:

131 Readings from C. S.

Lewis


Boxen: The Imaginary

World of the Young C. S.

Lewis


Letters to Children 1985 1221

Letters to Children 1985 939

Letters to Children 1985 Inscribed by Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie

Lamp Mead (editors)

940

A Grief Observed 1961

(Sept 26)

Review copy; published under N. W. Clerk 922

Letters: C. S. Lewis [and]

Don Giovanni Calabria

1989 Inscribed by translator (Martin Moynihan) 931

The Latin Letters of C. S.

Lewis

1998 932




Title Date Additional Details Ref. ID

Le Lion at la Sorciere

Blanche

1952 French edition of The Lion, the Witch, and

the Wardrobe

629

Prince Caspian 1953 French edition of Prince Caspian 628

Die Abenteuer Im

Wandschrank

1957 German edition of The Lion, the Witch,

and the Wardrobe

627

Kung Caspian och skeppet

Gryningen

1963 Swedish edition of The Voyage of the

Dawn Treader

632

Der Ritt Nach Narnia 1964 German edition of The Horse and His Boy 633

Smutek 1967 Polish edition of A Grief Observed 925

Loven og heksen 1968 Danish edition of The Lion, the Witch, and

the Wardobe

634

Troldmandens Nevo 1968 Danish edition of The Magician’s Nephew 626

The Horse and His Boy 1982 Hebrew edition of The Horse and His Boy 635

Kaspian Konungsson 1985 Icelandic edition of Prince Caspian 631

Crestinismul Redus la

Esente

1987 Romanian edition of Mere Christianity 961

Hesturinn Og Drengurinn

Hans

1988 Icelandic edition of The Horse and His Boy 630



Series 2: Letters and Manuscripts


Date Additional Details Ref. ID

1945 (May 24) 477

1945 (Oct 15) Written by Warren Lewis 206

1946 (Apr 17) 444

1946 (May 31) 207

1946 (Sept 9) Written by Warren Lewis 205

1946 (Sept 10) 204

1946 (Dec 20) Written by Warren Lewis 203

1947 (Sept 23) 202

1948 (Jan 7) 483

1948 (Feb 16) Written by Warren Lewis 101



1949 (Nov 10) Written by Warren Lewis 98

1949 (Nov 24) 97


1950 (June 15) 94

1950 (July 25) Written by Warren Lewis 95

1950 (Aug 28) Written by Warren Lewis 93

1950 (Sept 28) Co-written with Warren Lewis 91

1951 (Nov 20) Written by Warren Lewis 90


1952 (Feb 15) 88

1953 (Sept 9) Written by Warren Lewis 87

1953 (Sept 24) Co-written with Warren Lewis 86



1954 (Mar 2) 83

1954 (Mar 22) Co-written with Warren Lewis 82

1954 (Apr 7) Written by Warren Lewis 81

1954 (May 19) Written by Warren Lewis 80

1954 (Jul 19) Written by Warren Lewis 79



Series 2A: Letters to June Flewett-Freud, continued






1957 (July 27) Written by Warren Lewis 72


1958 (Mar 9) Written by Warren Lewis 70





1960 (Dec 22) 65





1966 (Feb 23) Written by Warren Lewis 60








1967 (Jan 4) Written by Warren Lewis 52



1968 (Jan 31) Written by Warren Lewis 49










Date Ref. ID

n.d. 480

(Feb 20) 23

(Oct 2) 450

1931 (Jun 18) 478

1933 (Jul 21) 470

1937 (Mar 8) 469

1939 (Mar 21) 475

1940 (Mar 26) 440

1940 (Apr 18) 446

1941 (Jan 4) 443

1941 (Jan 29) 449

1941 (Apr 26) 448

1941 (Apr 30) 466

1941 (May 9) 447

1942 (Jan 1) 441

1942 (Jan 20) 468

1942 (Apr 17) 442

1943 (Jan 31) 451

1945 (May 20) 452

1949 (Jul 30) 474a-b

1952 (Apr 1) 455a-b

1953 (Nov 5) 456

1956 (Nov 14) 457

1959 (Jan 8) 458

1960 (May 30) 459

1960 (Sept 23) 461

1961 (Nov 18) 24




Addressee Date Ref. ID

Cecil (Apr 30) 25

Neylan, Daniel 1937 (May 5) 41

Flewett, Mrs. 1944 (Sept 5) 42

Flewett, Mrs. 1945 (Jan 4) 208

Neylan, Daniel 1946 (Apr 1) 453

Lake 1950 (Feb 8) 92

Didzerekis 1963 (Feb 6) 26




Title Additional Details Ref. ID

Light Handwritten manuscript of CSL’s short story “Light” 437

Summae Notebook of handwritten philosophical and theological

discussion between Owen Barfield and CSL, with 14 extraneous

pages

471



Series 3: Articles, Lectures, Serials, and Other Contributions by C. S. Lewis


Title Date Format Additional Details Ref. ID

De Descriptione

Temporum: An

Inaugural Lecture

n.d. Lecture 314

The Church Speaks n.d. Article 862

Membership: A Paper

Read at a Meeting of

the Fellowship at

Oxford

n.d. Lecture 305

A Series of Ten Radio

Talks on Love by Dr.

C. S. Lewis

n.d. Lecture Lecture transcripts of talks 2, 4-

10: storge, philia, eros, agape

200

The Oxford Magazine 1928

(Dec 6)

Serial Review of C. W. Guillebaud’s

“The Works Council” and W. P.

Ker’s “Form and Style in Poetry”

188


(Dec 15)

Serial Review of Hugh Kingsmill’s

“Matthew Arnold”

186

Essays and Studies by

Members of the

English Association

1931 Book Essay “What Chaucer Really did

to Il Filostrato”

901


Members of the

English Association

1933 Book Essay “The Personal Heresy in

Criticism”

902


(Dec 30)

Serial Poem with Owen Barfield

“Abecedarium Philosophicum”

187


(May 10)

Serial Poem “The Shortest Way Home”

published under Nat. Whilk.

189


(May 24)

Serial Poem “Scholars’ Melancholy”

published under Nat. Whilk.

190

Lysistrata 1934

(May 1)

Serial Article “A Metrical Suggestion” 389


Members of the

English Association

1936 Book Essay “Open Letter to Dr.

Tillyard”

905

Series 3A: Articles, Lectures, and Serial Contributions, continued



Members of the

English Association

1938 Book Essay “The Fifteenth-Century

Heroic Line”

904

Seventeenth Century

Studies: Presented to

Sir Herbert Grierson

1938 Book Essay “Donne and Love Poetry in

the Seventeenth Century”

1235

Theology: A Monthly

Review

1939

(Dec)

Serial Review of “A Lectionary of

Christian Prose”

148


Members of the

English Association

1941 Book Essay “Psycho-Analysis and

Literary Criticism”

903

Hamlet: The Prince or

the Poem?

1942

(Jan 1)

Lecture Annual Shakespeare Lecture of

the British Academy

318


the Poem?

1942

(Jan 1)


the British Academy

317

Annual Shakespeare

Lecture: Hamlet: The

Prince or the Poem?

1942

(Apr 22)

Lecture Lecture on Hamlet 306

Alphabetical List of

the Resident

Members of the

University of Oxford

with their Addresses

1942

(Sept 1)

Booklet 323


the Poem?

1942

(Oct 1)


the British Academy; inscribed by

CSL

316

Saint Jude’s Gazette 1942

(Oct 1)

Serial Article “The Brilliant Exposition

on ‘Miracles’”

112

Socratic Digest 1943

(Jun 1)

Serial CSL listed as president; preface

and article “If We Have Christ’s

Ethics, Does the Rest of the

Christian Faith Matter?”

118

The Listener 1944

(Feb 24)

Serial First in series “Beyond

Personality: The Christian View of

God”; article “The Map and the

Ocean”

425



The Listener 1944

(Mar 2)

Serial Second in series “Beyond


God”; article “God in Three

Persons”

422

The Listener 1944

(Mar 9)

Serial Third in series “Beyond

Christianity: The Christian View

of God”; article “The Whole

Purpose of the Christian”

421

The Listener 1944

(Mar 16)

Serial Fourth in series “Beyond


God”; article “The Obstinate Tin

Soldiers”

420

The Listener 1944

(Mar 23)

Serial Fifth in series “Beyond


God”; article “Let Us Pretend”

418

The Listener 1944

(Mar 30)

Serial Sixth in series “Beyond


God”; article “Is Christianity Hard

or Easy?”

416

The Listener 1944

(Mar 6)

Serial Seventh in series “Beyond


God”; article “The New Man”

417

Answers to Questions

on Christianity

1944

(Apr 18)

Booklet Given at “One Man Brains Trust” 300


(Jun 1)

Serial CSL listed as president; articles

“Morals Without Faith” and

“‘Bulverism’, or, the Foundation

of 20th Century Thought”

119

Essays on the

Eighteenth Century

1945 Book Essay “Addison” 900


(Jan 1)

Serial CSL listed as president; article “Is

Theology Poetry?”

120

Britain To-Day 1945

(Aug 1)

Serial Poem “On the Death of Charles

Williams”

315

Punch 1946

(Jan 1)

Serial Jan-June 1946; poems “The Birth

of Language” and “On Being

Human” published under N. W.

1136



Punch 1946

(Jan 9)

Serial Poem “The Birth of Language”

published under N. W.

269

Oxford University

Socratic Club

1946

(Jan 28)

Program Socratic Club poster for Hilary

Term, 1946

414

Punch 1946

(May 8)

Serial Poem “On Being Human”


270

Punch, of the London

Charivari

1946

(May 8)

Serial Poem “On Being Human”


184

Punch 1946

(Jul 1)

Serial July-Dec 1946; poems “Solomon”

and “The True Nature of

Gnomes” published under N. W.

1137

Punch 1946

(Aug 14)

Serial Poem “Solomon” published

under N. W.

271

Phoenix Quarterly: A

Journal Directed

Towards the Recovery

of Unity in Religion

Politics and Art

1946

(Oct 1)

Serial Article “A Christian Reply to

Professor Price”

109

Punch 1946

(Oct 16)

Serial Poem “The True Name of

Gnomes” published under N. W.

272

Essays Presented to

Charles Williams

1947 Book Essay “On Stories”; inscribed by

Owen Barfield

907

Punch 1947

(Jan 1)

Serial Jan-June 1947; poems

“Dangerous Oversight” and

“Pan's Purge” published under

N. W.

1138

Punch 1947

(Jul 1)

Serial July-Dec 1947; poems “Donkey's

Delight,” “The End of the Wine,”

and “Le Roi S'Amuse” published

under N. W.

1139

Arthurian Torso 1948 Book Full subtitle: “Containing the

Posthumous Fragment of the

Figure of Arthur by Charles

Williams and a Commentary on

the Arthurian Poems of Charles

Williams”

851

Theology 1948 1948 Serial 1071



The Times Literary

Supplement

1948

(Jun 19)

Newspaper Letter to editor about Othello

and Ovid

182

Punch 1948

(Jul 1)

Serial July-Dec 1948; poems “The

Landing,” “The Prodigality of

Firdausi,” and “The Sailing of the

Ark” published under N. W.

1140

Nine: A Magazine of

Poetry and Criticism

1949

(Jan 1)

Serial Poem “A Cliché Came out of its

Cage”

104

The Month 1949

(Jul 1)

Serial Poem “Epitaph” 125


(Nov 1)

Serial CSL listed as president 121

Asking Them

Questions: Third

Series

1950 Book Essay “What are We to make of

Jesus Christ?”

852

Punch 1950

(Jan 1)

Serial Jan-June 1950; poem “As One

Oldster to Another” published

under N. W.

1141

The Month 1950

(Feb 1)

Serial Article with C. E. M. Joad “The

Pains of Animals”

126

The Atlantic 1950

(Aug 1)

Serial Article with C. E. M. Joad “The

Pains of Animals”

196

The Month 1950

(Oct 1)

Serial Essay “ Historicism” 127

Hero and Leander 1952

(Jan 1)

Lecture From the Proceedings of the

British Academy, vol. 38

313

The Socratic:

Contemporary

Philosophy and

Christian Faith

1952

(Jan 1)

Serial Article with H. H. Price “Is Theism

Important?”

122

The Library

Association:

Proceedings of the

Annual Conference

1952

(Apr 29)

Serial Essay “On Three Ways of Writing

for Children”

325

The Month 1952

(May 1)

Serial Poem “Pilgrim’s Problem” 128



Punch 1953

(Jul 15)

Serial Poem “Impenitence” published

under N. W.

286

Punch 1953

(Nov 4)

Serial Poem “March for Drum, Trumpet

and Twenty-one Giants”


185

Punch 1953

(Nov 4)

Serial Poem “March for Drum, Trumpet

and Twenty-One Giants”


285

Punch 1953

(Dec 30)

Serial Poems “Impenitence” and

“March for Drum, Trumpet, and

Twenty-one Giants”

183

Socratic Club 1954

(Jan 1)

Card Socratic Club admission card for

Hilary Term 1954; CSL listed as

president, as well as scheduled to

speak on “ ‘Meaning’ in History”

on February 11

117

The Month 1954

(May 1)

Serial Poem “Odora Canum Vis: A

Defence of Certain Modern

Biographers and Critics”

129

The Month 1955

(Aug 1)

Serial Poem “Legion” 130

The Twentieth

Century: Formerly the

Nineteenth Century &

After

1955

(Aug 1)

Serial Essay “Lilies that Fester” 123

Charles Williams 1955

(May 10)

Newspaper

Clipping

Article with Dorothy L. Sayers 159

The Listener 1955

(Sept 15)

Serial Letter to the editor “Portrait of

W. B. Yeats”

419

The Magazine of

Fantasy and Science

Fiction

1956

(Feb 1)

Serial Short story “The Shoddy Lands” 310

The Best from Fantasy

and Science Fiction:

Sixth Series

1957 Book Short story “Shoddy Land” 853

The Twentieth

Century

1957

(Dec 1)

Serial Essay “What Christmas Means to

Me”

124



The Magazine of

Fantasy and Science

Fiction

1958

(Jan 1)

Serial Short story “Ministering Angels” 311

The Magazine of

Fantasy and Science

Fiction

1959

(Jun 1)

Serial Poem “An Expostulation” 309

The Saturday Evening

Post

1959

(Dec 19)

Serial Short story “Screwtape Proposes

a Toast”

423

A Review of English

Literature

1960

(Jan 1)

Serial Article “Metre” 108

Fifty-Two: A Journal of

Books and Authors

from Geoffry Bles

1960

(May 1)

Serial Article “Three Ways of Writing

for Children: II: Children and the

Fantastic”

113

Radio Times 1960

(Jul 17)

Serial Article “It All Began with a Picture

. . .”

402

Critical Quarterly 1961

(Jun 1)

Serial Essay “Four-Letter Words” essay

within multi-author collection of

essays “Symposium: Pornography

and Obscenity”

107

Encounter 1962

(Feb 1)

Serial Article “Tragic Ends” reviewing

George Steiner’s “The Death of

Tragedy”

162

English: Literature,

Criticism, Teaching

1962

(Jun 1)

Serial Letter responding to response to

his earlier “Experiment in

Criticism”

324

Encounter 1962

(Dec 1)

Serial Symposium “Going into Europe”

with paragraph by CSL

163

The Listener 1962

(Dec 13)

Serial Article “The Vision of John

Bunyan: C. S. Lewis on ‘The

Pilgrim’s Progress’”

424

Essays on Malory 1963 Book Essay “The English Prose Morte” 906

Encounter 1963

(Jan 1)

Serial Letter to John Wain and Wain’s

reply in “Wain’s Oxford”

164

Show: The Magazine

of the Arts

1963

(Feb 1)

Serial Article “Onward, Christian

Spacemen”

277



Encounter 1963

(Jun 1)

Serial Review of Harold Bloom’s “The

Visionary Company, a Reading of

English Romantic Poetry”

165

The Saturday Evening

Post

1963

(Dec 21)

Serial Article “We Have No ‘Right to

Happiness’”; 2 copies

431

SF Horizons: A

Magazine of Criticism

and Comment

1964 Serial Article “C. S. Lewis Discusses

Science Fiction with Kingsley

Amis”

308

SF Horizons: A

Magazine of Criticism

and Comment

1965

(Dec 1)

Serial No. 2, winter; poem “On the

Atomic Bomb”

307

Sir Walter Scott 1771-

1832: An Edinburgh

Keepsake

1971 Book Speech given in 1956 1320

Series 3B: Books Edited, Prefaced, or Introduced by C. S. Lewis


Series 3B: Books Edited, Prefaced, or Introduced by C. S. Lewis

Title Author Date Additional Details Ref. ID

The Incarnation of the Word

of God: Being the Treatise of

St. Athanasius

Athanasius 1944 Introduction 928

How Heathen is Britain? Sandhurst, B. G. 1946 Preface 927

The Incarnation of the Word

of God: Being the Treatise of

St. Athanasius

Athanasius 1946 Introduction 929

Letters to Young Churches: A

Translation of the New

Testament Epistles

Phillips, J. B. 1947 Introduction 951

The Hierarchy of Heaven &

Earth

Harding, D. E. 1952 Introduction 926

A Faith of Our Own Farrer, Austin 1960 Preface 1037

A Faith of Our Own Farrer, Austin 1960 Preface 1036

Selections from Lazamon’s

Brut

Brook, G. L. 1963 Introduction 1004





Book of Common

Prayer

n.a. n.d. Inscribed by CSL to Sarah Neylan,

dated April 9, 1949

1021

Malcolm MacDonald,

George

n.d. Inscribed by CSL and Arthur

Greeves

715

Prince Caspian:

Return to Narnia: A

Story for Children

CSL n.d. Inscribed by CSL to Penelope

Berners-Price; inscribed by Pauline

Baynes

871

Robert Falconer MacDonald,

George

n.d. Inscribed by CSL and Arthur

Greeves

750

Alec Forbes of

Howglen

MacDonald,

George

1865 Inscribed by CSL; 3 volumes 641-

643

Annals of a Quiet

Neighbourhood

MacDonald,

George

1893 Inscribed “Arthur Greeves 1930”;

inscribed by CSL

646

Here are Ladies Stephens,

James

1913

(Nov)

Reprint edition; inscribed by CSL 1042

Hamlet: The Prince

or the Poem?

CSL 1942

(Oct 1)

Annual Shakespeare Lecture of

the British Academy, 1942;

inscribed by CSL

316

George

MacDonald: An

Anthology

MacDonald,

George

1946 Inscribed by CSL with personal

note to Mary Neylan

917

Lion, the Witch,

and the Wardrobe,

The: A Story for

Children

CSL 1950 Inscribed by CSL to Penelope

Berners-Price; inscribed by Pauline

Baynes

870

Last Battle, The: A

Story for Children

CSL 1956 Owned by Penelope Berners-

Price; inscribed by CSL and Pauline

Baynes

876





Smoke on the

Mountain: An

Interpretation of the

Ten Commandments

Davidman, Joy 1954 1031

Smoke on the

Mountain: An

Interpretation of the

Ten Commandments

in Terms of Today

Davidman, Joy

1955 1032

Weeping Bay Davidman, Joy 1950 1038

Levantine Adventurer:

The Travels and

Missions of the

Chevalier d'Arvieux

1653-1697

Lewis, Warren H. 1963 First American edition;

inscribed by Warren H. Lewis

1043

Assault on Olympus:

The Rise of the House

of Gramont between

1604 and 1678

Lewis, Warren H. 1958 1046

The Splendid Century Lewis, Warren H. 1953 Owned by Dorothy L. Sayers 1044

The Sunset of the

Splendid Century

Lewis, Warren H. 1955 Owned by Dorothy L. Sayers 1045



Series 6: Scholarship and Other Sources


Author Addressee Date Ref. ID

Hooper, Walter Neylan, Mary 1987 (Oct 27) 460

Boyd, Ian Neylan, Mary 1991 (Feb 8) 463

Boyd, Ian Neylan, Mary 1991 (May 8) 464

Morris, Jane Neylan, Mary 1991 (Aug 1) 465

Series 6B: Scholarship and Others Sources


Series 6B: Scholarship and Other Sources


Assorted

newspaper

clippings

n.a. n.d. Assorted newspaper clippings,

some without attribution

1375,

1379

Encounter with

Light

Vanauken,

Sheldon

n.d. Conversion story of Sheldon

Vanauken (friend of CSL)

102

The New York

Times Book Review

Fuller,

Edmund

n.d. Newspaper clipping; “Speaking

of Books” article on

imaginations of CSL and JRRT

412

“Though

Pugnacious, Lewis

was No Bully”

n.a. n.d. Newspaper clipping of article

“Though Pugnacious, Lewis was

No Bully”

408

The Saturday

Review of

Literature

n.a. 1946

(May 25)

Review of CSL’s “That Hideous

Strength” in article “Confusion

Goes to College”; review of

Tolstoy’s “Road to Cavalry”

396

Time: The Weekly

Newsmagazine

n.a. 1947 (Jun 2) Review of CSL’s George

MacDonald anthology

168

Time: The Weekly

Newsmagazine

n.a. 1947

(Sept 8)

CSL on cover; article on CSL 169

C. S. Lewis: Apostle

to the Skeptics

Walsh, Chad 1949 Inscribed by Chad Walsh 1047

The New York

Times Book Review

Walsh, Chad 1949

(Sept 18)

Review “C. S. Lewis on the

Heavenly Goal” on CSL’s “The

Weight of Glory”

278

Socratic Digest Anscombe,

G. E. M.

1949

(Nov 1)

Response article “A Reply to Mr.

C. S. Lewis’ Argument that

‘Naturalism’ is Self-Refuting”;

CSL article “Religion Without

Dogma?”

121

Time: The Weekly

Newsmagazine

n.a. 1955

(May 2)

Article on CSL, history, and the

Middle Ages: “The Greatest

Divide”

170

Series 6B: Scholarship and Others Sources, continued


Dear Wormwood:

A Play in Three Acts

Based Upon C. S.

Lewis’ Book ‘The

Screwtape Letters’

Forsyth,

James

1961 Play based on “The Screwtape

Letters”

320

Screwtape Forsyth,

James

1962 996

Times Literary

Supplement

n.a. 1962

(Mar 30)

Newspaper clipping; review of

CLS’s “They Asked for a Paper”

160

The Humane

Medievalist: An

Inaugural Lecture

Bennett,

J. A. W.

1964

(Dec 20)

Inaugural lecture that functions

as tribute to CSL; lecture given

Dec 20, 1964 but published 1965

103

Light on C. S. Lewis Gibb,

Jocelyn (ed)

1965 Includes reflections by Owen

Barfield, Austin Farrer, and

Nevill Coghill

952


Jocelyn (ed)

1965 Uncorrected proof; includes

reflections by Owen Barfield,

Austin Farrer, and Nevill Coghill

953


Jocelyn (ed)

1965 Includes reflections by Owen

Barfield, Austin Farrer, and

Nevill Coghill

954

Fern-Seed and

Elephants: and

Other Essays on

Christianity

n.a. 1975 Owned by Owen Barfield 911

Severe Mercy, A: C.

S. Lewis and a

pagan love invaded

by Christ as told by

one of the lovers

Vanauken,

Sheldon

1977 First edition 1219

Time n.a. 1977

(Dec 5)

Newspaper clipping; religion

article “C. S. Lewis Goes

Marching On: The Apostle of

‘Mere Christianity’ Converts a

New Generation”

194

First and Second

Things

n.a. 1985 912

Series 6B: Scholarship and Others Sources, continued


The Play & Its

Critic: Essays for

Eric Bentley

Bertin,

Michael (ed)

1986 Essay on CSL 986

C. S. Lewis: A

Biography

Wilson, A.

N.


Shadowlands Nicholson,

William

1991 Playbill from Brooks Atkinson

Theatre production

1404

The Star Press n.a. 1999

(Oct 10)

Newspaper clipping; “Narnia

Revisited: Taylor University is

home to one of the finest C. S.

Lewis collections in existence”

433

An Irish Friendship

in English Lit: Nevill

Coghill, C. S. Lewis,

and the “Cave”

Lobdell,

Jared C.

2001

(Nov 16)

Jared C. Lobdell’s address at

Lewis & Friends Colloquium

397

A Plan for C. S.

Lewis Talk

Tisdall,

Sarah

2004 (Jan 1) Sarah Tisdall’s address at Lewis

& Friends Colloquium, with CD

of PowerPoint and text

267

C. S. Lewis and

Natural Law

Hooper,

Walter

2004

(Mar 13)

Walter Hooper’s address at

Lewis & Friends Colloquium,

inscribed by Hooper

263

Preserving Our

Humanity: Lewis on

Morality

Meilaender,

Gilbert

2008 Gilbert Meilaender’s address at

Colloquium

279

Why Study? C. S.

Lewis on the Life of

the Mind

Martindale,

Wayne

2011

(Sept 26)

Transcript of Wayne

Martindale’s Taylor University

chapel address

287

Program for Service

to Dedicate a

Memorial to C. S.

Lewis

n.a. 2013 (Nov

22)

Westminster Abbey 1405




Artist Format Additional Details Ref. ID

n.a. Photo Photo of CSL and another individual 1051

n.a. Portrait Watercolor of CSL 1396

Baynes, Pauline Poster Map of Narnia 485

Neylan, Mary Sketch Sketch of C. S. Lewis by Mary Neylan (framed) 472

Tisdall, Sarah Neylan Painting Sarah Tisdall painting titled “The Reckoning” 430

Tisdall, Sarah Neylan Image Oxford Hospitals Art Project brochure 462

Documents

Title of Collection: C. S. Lewis Collection