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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...

that he may soon be both a husband and a widower, then finding that something like a miracle has taken place and Joy’s cancer has seemingly disappeared, and then, later, the fierce shock of her death. Because both Lewis and his correspondent had in common a mélange of physical troubles, we learn more here than anywhere else of his increasingly numerous maladies that were finally to join hands in his decease. There is Lewis the dreader of poverty who, it became known after his death, gave away two-thirds
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