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TCG Letter #188
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Henry Willink
Date
17 May 1954
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien discusses C.S. Lewis and his invitation to Cambridge. Lewis had intitially refused the offer citing family obligations, namely his brothers health, but Tolkien convinced Lewis that the move would be good for him. Willink though had offered the chair elsewhere before recieving a letter from Lewis accepting the post.
Quoted by Brian Barbour in "Lewis and Cambridge", Modern Philology 96, no. 4.
A shorter extract was published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963.
Quoted by Brian Barbour in "Lewis and Cambridge", Modern Philology 96, no. 4.
A shorter extract was published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963.
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