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On October 26, 1950, C. S. Lewis wrote the first of more than a hundred letters he would send to a woman he had never met, but with whom he was to maintain a correspondence for the rest of his life. Ranging broadly in subject matter, the letters discuss topics as profound as the love of God and as frivolous as preferences in cats. Lewis himself clearly had no idea that these letters would ever...

The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford Dec 29/58 Dear Mary Just a very hurried line—(1). To condole with you on the loss of Fr.—.18 (2.) To tell a story which puts the contrast between our feast of the Nativity and, all this ghastly “Xmas” racket at its lowest. My brother heard a woman on a ’bus say, as the ’bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, “Oh Lor’! They bring religion into everything. Look—they’re dragging it even into Christmas now!” Love and sympathy from us both. Yours Jack As from
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