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Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends
Taylor University
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Title of Collection: C. S. Lewis Collection
Date Range: 1865-2011
Linear Feet: 15.9
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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Citation Information
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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.
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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 1A: Books in English
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Series 1: First and Rare Editions
Series 1A: Books in English
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
The Horse and His Boy: A
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
The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader: A Story for
Children
n.d. Owned by Penelope Berners-Price;
inscribed by Pauline Baynes
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
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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 Pilgrim’s Regress 1935 985
The Pilgrim’s Regress 1935 978
The Pilgrim’s Regress 1935 979
The Pilgrim’s Regress 1935 980
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
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Christian Behaviour 1943 (Jun) First edition; third printing 858
Christian Behaviour 1943 First printing 856
Out of the Silent Planet 1943 1208
Out of the Silent Planet 1943 972
The Pilgrim’s Regress 1943 983
The Problem of Pain 1943 992
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
The Pilgrim’s Regress 1944 981
The Pilgrim’s Regress 1944 984
Beyond Personality: The
Christian Idea of God
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
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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
The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe: A Story for
Children
1950 First American printing 877
The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe: A Story for
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
The Literary Impact of the
Authorised Version
1950
(Mar 20)
955
Prince Caspian: The
Return to Narnia: A Story
for Children
1951 First American printing 878
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
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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
The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader: A Story for
Children
1952 880
The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader: A Story for
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;
inscribed by Pauline Baynes
874
English Literature in the
Sixteenth Century
1954 898
English Literature in the
Sixteenth Century
1954 897
English Literature in the
Sixteenth Century
excluding drama
1954 899
English Literature in the
Sixteenth Century
excluding drama
1954 896
The Horse and His Boy: A
Story for Children
1954 First American printing; review copy 882
The Horse and His Boy: A
Story for Children
1954 First American printing 883
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
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The Magician’s Nephew:
A Story for Children
1955 Owned by Penelope Berners-Price;
inscribed by Pauline Baynes
875
The Magician’s Nephew:
A Story for Children
1955 First American printing 884
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
Surprised by Joy: The
Shape of My Early Life
1955 1012
Surprised by Joy: The
Shape of My Early Life
1955 1009
The Last Battle: A Story
for Children
1956 First American printing 886
The Last Battle: A Story
for Children
1956 Owned by Penelope Berners-Price;
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 Problem of Pain 1957 1058
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
Reflections on the Psalms 1958 1211
Reflections on the Psalms 1958 994
The Weight of Glory 1958 Fourth reprint 302
Beyond Personality: The
Christian Idea of God
1959 863
The Four Loves 1960 913
The Four Loves 1960 914
The Four Loves 1960 915
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The Four Loves 1960 916
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
The Literary Impact of the
Authorised Version
1963 956
The Discarded Image: An
Introduction to Medieval
and Renaissance
Literature
1964 892
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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
Anthology of C. S. Lewis
1969 First American edition 965
A Mind Awake: An
Anthology of C. S. Lewis
1969 First American edition 964
Narrative Poems 1969 Inscribed by Walter Hooper (editor) 968
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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
The Literary Impact of the
Authorised Version
1950
(Mar 20)
957
The Literary Impact of the
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
The Dark Tower & Other
Stories
1977 889
The Dark Tower & Other
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
They Stand Together: The
Letters of C. S. Lewis to
Arthur Greeves
(1914-1963)
1979 Uncorrected advance proof 1018
They Stand Together: The
Letters of C. S. Lewis to
Arthur Greeves
(1914-1963)
1979 1022
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At the Breakfast Table
and Other Reminiscences
1980 First British edition 1224
The Visionary Christian:
131 Readings from C. S.
Lewis
1981 Uncorrected proof 1028
Boxen: The Imaginary
World of the Young C. S.
Lewis
1985 First American edition 1207
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
Series 1B: Books in Other Languages
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Series 1B: Books in Other Languages
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 2A: Letters to June Flewett-Freud
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Series 2: Letters and Manuscripts
Series 2A: Letters to June Flewett-Freud
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
1948 (Dec 3) Written by Warren Lewis 100
1948 (Dec 9) Written by Warren Lewis 99
1949 (Nov 10) Written by Warren Lewis 98
1949 (Nov 24) 97
1949 (Dec 4) Written by Warren Lewis 96
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
1951 (Dec 5) Written by Warren Lewis 89
1952 (Feb 15) 88
1953 (Sept 9) Written by Warren Lewis 87
1953 (Sept 24) Co-written with Warren Lewis 86
1953 (Dec 14) Written by Warren Lewis 85
1953 (Dec 31) Written by Warren Lewis 84
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
1954 (Dec 15) Written by Warren Lewis 78
1955 (Apr 4) Written by Warren Lewis 77
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1955 (Apr 18) Written by Warren Lewis 76
1955 (Dec 15) Written by Warren Lewis 74
1955 (Dec 26) Written by Warren Lewis 75
1956 (Dec 30) Written by Warren Lewis 73
1957 (July 27) Written by Warren Lewis 72
1957 (Dec 12) Written by Warren Lewis 71
1958 (Mar 9) Written by Warren Lewis 70
1958 (Oct 23) Written by Warren Lewis 69
1958 (Dec 6) Written by Warren Lewis 68
1959 (Dec 15) Written by Warren Lewis 67
1960 (Dec 13) Written by Warren Lewis 66
1960 (Dec 22) 65
1961 (Dec 21) Written by Warren Lewis 64
1965 (Dec 13) Written by Warren Lewis 63
1965 (Dec 21) Written by Warren Lewis 62
1965 (Dec 26) Written by Warren Lewis 61
1966 (Feb 23) Written by Warren Lewis 60
1966 (Mar 17) Written by Warren Lewis 59
1966 (Mar 22) Written by Warren Lewis 58
1966 (Apr 28) Written by Warren Lewis 57
1966 (May 3) Written by Warren Lewis 56
1966 (May 27) Written by Warren Lewis 55
1966 (Dec 4) Written by Warren Lewis 54
1966 (Dec 19) Written by Warren Lewis 53
1967 (Jan 4) Written by Warren Lewis 52
1967 (Dec 11) Written by Warren Lewis 51
1967 (Dec 26) Written by Warren Lewis 50
1968 (Jan 31) Written by Warren Lewis 49
1968 (Dec 10) Written by Warren Lewis 48
1969 (Oct 4) Written by Warren Lewis 47
1969 (Dec 9) Written by Warren Lewis 46
1970 (Oct 6) Written by Warren Lewis 45
1971 (Dec 6) Written by Warren Lewis 43
1971 (Dec 22) Written by Warren Lewis 44
Series 2B: Letters to Mary Neylan
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Series 2B: Letters to Mary Neylan
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
Series 2C: Letters to Other Recipients
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Series 2C: Letters to Other Recipients
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
Series 2D: Manuscripts
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Series 2D: Manuscripts
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 3A: Articles, Lectures, and Serial Contributions
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Series 3: Articles, Lectures, Serials, and Other Contributions by C. S. Lewis
Series 3A: Articles, Lectures, and Serial Contributions
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
The Oxford Magazine 1928
(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
Essays and Studies by
Members of the
English Association
1933 Book Essay “The Personal Heresy in
Criticism”
902
The Oxford Magazine 1933
(Dec 30)
Serial Poem with Owen Barfield
“Abecedarium Philosophicum”
187
The Oxford Magazine 1934
(May 10)
Serial Poem “The Shortest Way Home”
published under Nat. Whilk.
189
The Oxford Magazine 1934
(May 24)
Serial Poem “Scholars’ Melancholy”
published under Nat. Whilk.
190
Lysistrata 1934
(May 1)
Serial Article “A Metrical Suggestion” 389
Essays and Studies by
Members of the
English Association
1936 Book Essay “Open Letter to Dr.
Tillyard”
905
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Essays and Studies by
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
Essays and Studies by
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
Hamlet: The Prince or
the Poem?
1942
(Jan 1)
Lecture Annual Shakespeare Lecture of
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
Hamlet: The Prince or
the Poem?
1942
(Oct 1)
Lecture Annual Shakespeare Lecture of
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
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The Listener 1944
(Mar 2)
Serial Second in series “Beyond
Personality: The Christian View of
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
Personality: The Christian View of
God”; article “The Obstinate Tin
Soldiers”
420
The Listener 1944
(Mar 23)
Serial Fifth in series “Beyond
Personality: The Christian View of
God”; article “Let Us Pretend”
418
The Listener 1944
(Mar 30)
Serial Sixth in series “Beyond
Personality: The Christian View of
God”; article “Is Christianity Hard
or Easy?”
416
The Listener 1944
(Mar 6)
Serial Seventh in series “Beyond
Personality: The Christian View of
God”; article “The New Man”
417
Answers to Questions
on Christianity
1944
(Apr 18)
Booklet Given at “One Man Brains Trust” 300
Socratic Digest 1994
(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
Socratic Digest 1945
(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
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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”
published under N. W.
270
Punch, of the London
Charivari
1946
(May 8)
Serial Poem “On Being Human”
published under N. W.
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
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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
Socratic Digest 1949
(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
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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”
published under N. W.
185
Punch 1953
(Nov 4)
Serial Poem “March for Drum, Trumpet
and Twenty-One Giants”
published under N. W.
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
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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
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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
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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
Series 4: Works Inscribed by C. S. Lewis
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Series 4: Works Inscribed by C. S. Lewis
Title Author Date Additional Details Ref. ID
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
Series 5: Books by C. S. Lewis’s Family
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Series 5: Books by C. S. Lewis’s Family
Title Author Date Additional Details Ref. ID
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 6A: Letters Written by Others
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Series 6: Scholarship and Other Sources
Series 6A: Letters Written by Others
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
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Series 6B: Scholarship and Other Sources
Title Author Date Additional Details Ref. ID
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
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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
Light on C. S. Lewis Gibb,
Jocelyn (ed)
1965 Uncorrected proof; includes
reflections by Owen Barfield,
Austin Farrer, and Nevill Coghill
953
Light on C. S. Lewis Gibb,
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
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The Play & Its
Critic: Essays for
Eric Bentley
Bertin,
Michael (ed)
1986 Essay on CSL 986
C. S. Lewis: A
Biography
Wilson, A.
N.
1990 Uncorrected proof 1034
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
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Series 6C: Images of C. S. Lewis
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