‘All this is the side he shows us day by day: but there is more behind, for he is a war wreck and spends his nights mostly awake. He will die game. His heaven would be a cosy public house with a billiard room and a bet won from a man who could afford to lose it: his hell, a pupil.’
WELDON, Thomas Dewar (1896–1958). He took a BA from Magdalen College in 1921 and was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Magdalen 1923–58. Lewis wrote of him:
‘Determined to be a villain. He is a man of the melancholy complexion: his face very pale, his hair very black and streaked down with oil over his head without a parting: his mouth long and thin: the features clear cut, and very little flesh on the face. He is a frequent and loud laugher, but the expression of his face in repose is fierce and sullen. He carries a great deal of liquor without being drunk. His light talk is cynicism and bawdy: when he grows serious without anger (which is seldom) he likes to rap out his sentences very sharply and close his mouth after them like a trap. In anger—which always rises unless he is opposed—he is not at all hot, but grows paler, smiles a great deal and is powerful in dialectic. He is insolent by custom to servants and to old men, yet capable of kindliness, though not to be depended on. He showed himself courageous in the war and is so in peace. He has great abilities, but would despise himself if he wasted them on disinterested undertakings. He gives no quarter and would ask none. He believes that he has seen through everything and lives at rock bottom. He would be capable of treachery, and would think the victim a fool for being betrayed. Contempt is his ruling passion: courage his chief virtue.’
INDEX
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Adventure of Living (Strachey), 235
Aeneid (Virgil), 145, 147
After the War (Repington), 20, 22, 27
Ainley, Henry, 124–25
Alchemist (Jonson), 191
Alexander, Samuel, 538
Alice and a Family (Ervine), 485
Allchin, Basil Charles, 40, 56, 100, 357, 615–16
Allen, Carleton Kemp, 65, 71
Allen, Hugh, 45
Amelia (Fielding), 566
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 245
Anglo Saxon Reader (Sweet), 159
anthroposophy, 450–51, 453, 587
Antigone, 69, 73–75, 104
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 323
Appearance and Reality (Bradley), 99
Appleton, E. R., 40
Aristotle, 20, 21, 49, 580, 581
Arnold, Matthew, 212n136, 250
Askins, Edith ‘Edie’, 154, 408, 417
Askins, John Hawkins (Doc), 19, 26, 41, 44, 54–55, 64, 96–97, 100, 154, 179–80, 193, 203, 205, 206, 208, 239, 241, 255–56; breakdown and death, 269–292, 294, 305–7
Askins, Mary, 274, 292, 293
Askins, Robert ‘Rob’, 154, 269–74, 279–85, 288–91, 305, 616
Askins, William James, 306, 616–17
Asquith, Herbert Henry, 45, 191
Asquith, Margot, 35, 45
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 191, 448
Atlantis, 19, 473
Austen, Jane, 424
Autobiography of Margot Asquith, 166, 181
Autobiography (Trollope), 231–32
Bacon, Francis, 176, 196
Baker, Leo, 35, 38, 39, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60–61, 63, 65–66, 72–73, 75–78, 84, 89, 95–96, 98–103, 142, 149, 401, 617; dreams about, 48, 51, 205–6; illness, 72–73, 75, 76, 78; Jack visits family, 124–27; theatre career, 35, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 78, 95–96, 100–101, 103, 104, 126, 209, 448–49
Baker, Miss, 21, 31
Baldwin, Stanley, 511, 517, 518, 519, 524, 526
Barfield, Matilda ‘Maud’, 209, 304n43, 369, 587, 608
Barfield, Owen, 51, 52–53, 70, 76, 81, 86–87, 89, 209, 247–49, 304n43, 369, 370, 400, 453, 585–86, 587, 608, 617–18; dancing, 45, 47, 80; sub-editor of Beacon, 35–36, 37, 40, 247
Bateson, Fredrick Wilse, 316, 426–27
Battle of Maldon, 192
Battle of the Books (Swift), 293
Bayliss, Lilian, 78, 84, 96
Beacon (magazine), 35, 39, 40, 247, 413
Beauchamp’s Career (Meredith), 220, 230
Beckett, Eric, 112, 116–17, 405–7, 618
Benecke, Paul Victor, 550, 557, 635–36
Betjeman, John, 526, 535, 536, 580–81, 583–84, 597
Blakiston, Herbert Edward, 424–25
Blunt, Henry Pyot, 34, 39, 48, 55
Book of the Duchesse, (Chaucer), 156
Boyd family, 227
Bradley, Francis Herbert, 66, 99
Bride of Lammermoor (Scott), 498
Broad, Dorothy, 30, 32, 78, 105, 107, 150, 159, 260, 287, 343, 344, 347
Browning (Chesterton), 395
Burton, Robert, 150
Bussy D’Ambois (Chapman), 206–7
Cahen, Andrée, 105, 107, 111, 113, 120, 121–24, 127, 134, 137
Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 553
Campbell, John Colquhoun, 583, 591, 598
Carlyle, Alexander James, 152–53, 156, 200–201, 250–51, 300–301, 401, 473, 601, 618
Carritt, Edgar Frederick, 44, 48, 53, 57, 60, 65–68, 71, 73, 102, 110, 115–16, 169, 201, 313, 370–71, 388–89, 401, 404, 425, 436, 618–19
Catlin, George, 439–40, 444
Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 257
Cenci (Shelley), 185
Chance (Conrad), 496, 498
Changeling (Middleton & Rowley), 207
Chatham and Clive (Macaulay), 459
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 156, 158, 174, 178, 604
Childe, Rowland, 199
Childs, William Macbride, 73
Christian Reflections (Lewis), 619
Christina Dreams, 26, 53, 76, 80, 557
Chute, Anthony William, 511–12, 520
Clarke, Alured George, 27–28, 54
Coghill, Nevill, 253–60, 256n21, 257n22, 258n23, 281n34, 321–22, 325, 551, 552, 619–20
Confessions of a Young Man (Moore), 409–10
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 546
Country of the Blind (Wells), 519
Courthope, William John, 610–11
Cowper, William, 319
Crabbe, George, 319
Craig, Edwin Stewart, 511, 514, 518, 519, 521, 586, 594, 636–38
Craig, James, 555, 556
Craigie, William Alexander, 330, 340, 588
Cranny. See Macran, Frederick Walker
Croce, Benedetto, 48, 52
Curtis, Geoffrey William, 167, 168
Daedalus (Haldane), 382–83
Darlow, Thomas Sherrock, 201, 246–48, 257–58, 268n30
Dauber (Masefield), 559
David Copperfield (Dickens), 412, 415
de Bergerac, Bernice, 96, 104
De la Mare, Walter, 179, 293, 387
Delanges, Maurice, 348–56
Democrat (newspaper), 27
De Regno (Patrizi), 565–66
Development of Greek Philosophy (Adamson), 20, 21
de Villiers, Iris, 131, 133
Ding Dong Bell (De la Mare), 445
Dixon, Arthur Lee, 514, 638–69
Dodds, Eric, 67–68, 72, 82–83, 144
Don Juan (Byron), 59, 176, 381
Donne, John, 223, 242
Dotty. See Vaughan, Dorothea ‘Dotty’
Dover Road (Milne), 124–25
Dryden, John, 262, 611
Dymer (Lewis): and Christina Dreams, 26n15, 577; comments on, 43, 47, 53, 56, 60, 71, 81, 123, 176, 190–91, 339, 369, 434, 468, 586, 593; published, 527, 547–50, 554, 564, 568; reviews, 573, 574, 582–83, 596, 606; writing of, 20, 27, 36, 50, 63, 67, 69, 70, 72, 75, 77, 88, 92, 98, 103, 148, 149, 153, 236, 239, 331, 375, 417
Earp, Thomas Wade, 199
Egoist (Meredith), 341
eidee theory, 21
Eliot, T. S., 546, 547–48, 551–52, 553, 557
Ellis, Havelock, 59, 100
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 176–77
Empedocles on Etna (Arnold), 212
Empty Room (Harwood), 196–97
Endymion (Lyly), 202
Energie Spirituelle (Bergson), 379
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Lewis), 634
English Review (magazine), 25
Erasmus, 564
Erastae (Plato), 609
Erewhon Revisited (Butler), 569
Essence of Aesthetic (Croce), 52
Evans, Valerie, 460, 543
Everlasting Mercy (Masefield), 24
Ewart, Isabella Kelso ‘Kelsie’, 139, 213, 232
Ewart, Mary Gundred, 139, 194
Ewart family, 213, 231, 620–21
Ewing, Alfred Cecil, 65, 144, 311, 314, 398, 428–29, 436, 530
Faerie Queene (Spenser), 220, 381
Faithful Shepherdess (Fletcher), 230
Farquharson, Arthur Spenser, 57, 78–79, 92, 106, 157, 389–90, 470, 621–22
Fasnacht, George Eugène, 199–200, 241, 266, 446
Featherstone, Miss (landlady), 19n1, 23, 24, 27, 30, 36, 38, 42, 43, 62, 92, 146, 289
Fool Errant (Hewlett), 381
Forsyte Saga (Galsworthy), 140
Foster (Lewis), 178, 181, 381
Freeman, John, 531
Freud, Sigmund, 55, 58, 59
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene), 507
Gallipoli Diary (Hamilton), 150
General Strike, 511–25
Glorious England (de Bergerac), 96, 101, 104
God in the Dock (Lewis), 629
Godson (Tolstoi), 132
Gonner, Lady Nannie, 23, 30, 60, 90
Goode, Dr., 279, 280–81, 283–84
Gordon, George Stuart, 174, 184, 185, 190, 196, 201–2, 246, 256, 294–95, 320–21, 322, 622
Gower, John, 173, 174, 603, 604
Graves, Robert, 82
Greeves, Arthur, 6, 12, 79, 81, 89, 97, 141, 218–19, 342–44, 622–23; painting, 76, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92–93, 95; visits by, 72, 77, 78, 79, 82–88, 93–98, 341–45
Greeves, John, 217–18, 229
Greeves, Mary Gribbon, 140, 215, 221–22, 227–30, 234–35
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 295, 569
Haig, Edward Felix, 34, 66–67
Hamilton, Augustus Warren ‘Uncle Gussie’, 212
Hamilton, Thomas Robert, 217
Hamilton-Jenkin, Alfred, 42, 46, 50–51, 58–59, 74–75, 91, 158, 177, 178, 186, 187–88, 198, 265, 273, 277, 293, 315–16, 337, 362, 370, 442–43, 445, 556–57; on chivalry, 162; Dymer comments, 60, 195; horror play idea, 318–19; on humanitarianism, 89; mining concern, 88, 163–64, 318; real ideal discussion, 188
Hankin, Mrs., 151, 152, 153, 155, 164, 169
Hardie, William, 514, 523, 524–25, 536, 548, 552, 557, 601–2, 605, 623
Harper, Annie, 216
Harwood, Cecil, 50–51, 53, 55–56, 70–71, 76, 81, 86–87, 89, 196–97, 225, 304, 304n43, 337–38, 345–46, 365–70, 431–34, 446–53, 540, 624
Hassan, (Flecker), 370–71
Hawes, Commander, 114, 131, 133–36, 139
Hawes, Maisie ‘Moppie’, 113–14, 115, 118 , 121, 125, 127–39, 143–46, 149, 151, 183, 209, 240, 241
Hawes, Mrs. ‘The Bitch’, 114, 121, 127, 131–34, 183
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 149
“Hegemony of Moral Values” (Lewis), 397, 429
Henderson, Keith David, 553
Henry V ( Shakespeare), 192
Henry IV (Shakespeare), 127, 189
Henry VI (Shakespeare), 99
Heracleidae (Euripides), 392
Hetherington, William Dixon, 523, 531, 541
Hichens, Dr., 269, 270
Hinckley, Mrs., 69, 90–91, 101–2
Hippolytus (Euripides), 393
Holmes family, 431, 432–33
Hope, Edward, 635, 639–40
Hugon, Marianne Cecile, 95, 113
Hume, David, 69, 442
Idealistic Nihilism, 199–200
Iliad (Homer), 295–96
Il Penseroso (Milton), 150
“Infatuation” (Lewis), 537–38
Instinct and the Unconscious (Rivers), 85, 89–90
Insurrections (Stephens), 296–97
Introductory Lectures (Freud), 58
Irish Fairy Tales (Stephens), 140
Irrational Knot (Shaw), 82
Ivy (maid), 128, 138, 139, 149, 150, 159, 197
J.A. See Smith, John Alexander
Jellicoe, John Basil, 520–21, 522
Jenkin. See Hamilton-Jenkin, Alfred
Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso), 356–57, 359
Johnson, Patrick, 606
Joseph, Horace William, 102
Jowett, Benjamin, 43
Joy (Lewis), 29–31, 35–37, 50, 381, 383, 413
Jude the Obscure (Hardy), 214, 215
Kalevala (Lönnrot), 567, 585–86
Kant, Immanuel, 42, 44, 48, 398
Kaufmann, George Adams von, 450–51
Keir, David Lindsay, 264–65, 472, 512–13, 521, 591, 624–25
Kemshead, Chaloner Thomas ‘Uncle Bunny’, 192–93
“King of Drum” (Lewis), 575, 577, 580, 585, 597, 609
Lady Rose’s Daughter (Ward), 381
Lama Sabacthani (Barfield), 248
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, 112, 406
Lawson, Frederick Henry, 468, 512–13, 521, 625
Lear (Shakespeare), 263, 604
Lee, Stephen Grosvenor, 635, 640–41
Lee Shore (Macaulay), 566
Legend of Good Women (Chaucer), 164
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 427, 467
Letters of C.S. Lewis, 2–3nn5, 7, 6n11, 8n16, 10n19, 334, 382, 421n27
Lewis, Albert James (father of C. S.), 32, 48–49n44, 52, 117–18, 141, 185, 206, 207, 233, 299, 328, 359, 388n9, 395n14, 568, 625–26
Lewis, Clive Staples ‘Jack’: academic career, 28–29, 48n44, 55, 57, 60–63, 65, 67–68, 71–75, 82–83, 171, 267, 297–99, 300–301, 312, 346–47, 394, 395n14, 413, 503–4, 606; All Souls’ Fellowship candidacy, 391, 394, 406–7, 444; on anthroposophy, 450–51, 453, 587; on art, 126, 260, 263–67; British Museum visit, 447–48; on Christianity/religion, 29, 38, 64, 126, 162, 188, 259–60, 395, 435, 482, 505, 599, 602, 613; Christina Dreams, 26, 53, 76, 80, 557; Clevedon holiday, 408–21; Cloud Farm holiday, 478–502; concert going, 179, 180, 184, 198, 438–39, 510, 519; critical of Maureen, 94, 204, 460, 571–72; as detached, 234; in Discussion Class, 246, 252–53, 267–68, 316–17, 320–21; dream accounts, 48, 51, 83, 127, 147–48, 185, 205–6, 311, 333, 417, 445–46, 550–51, 561–62; Eliot parody, 546, 547–48, 551–52; English School, 156–57, 159–60, 173, 324–26, 340, 342, 344; examination correction work, 458–61; feelings about Warnie, 112, 124; financial concerns, 22, 24, 28, 233–34, 303, 561; General Strike observations, 511–25; good emotions discussion, 167–68; Greek studies, 31, 33, 37, 54, 62–63, 69, 74, 392, 400; Greeves disturbing to, 79, 81, 89, 97, 141; Hillsboro house, 303, 305, 307, 309–12, 328; horror play idea, 318–19, 355; housing/moving, 23, 30, 31, 32, 37, 181–82, 192–94, 202, 296, 300, 335–36, 559, 613; on imagination, 576–78, 600; intimacy with Mrs. Moore, 106, 111, 120, 229; Ireland visits, 139–42, 210–38, 371, 568; Karraways visit, 124–27; Magdalen Fellowship candidacy, 142–47, 153, 156, 169, 476–77; on marriage, 59, 65–66, 88, 101; Martlets meetings, 42, 71, 167, 200–201, 255, 263–67, 436, 469, 473; Mermaids society, 594, 610; motorbike tour, 454–58; Norse studies, 577, 599; O.E. work, 159, 161, 164, 165, 171, 243, 572–78, 580; Parson’s Pleasure bathing, 52, 55–56, 57, 337, 343, 351, 562, 566; philosophical society meetings, 396–97, 404, 428, 437, 439–41, 467–68, 474, 601, 605; philosophical thoughts, 24, 53, 199–200, 203, 338, 386, 390, 399, 400, 541; play attendance, 44–45, 104, 124–25, 142, 383, 448, 467, 545–46, 604, 608; on publishing, 22, 25, 34, 256, 499; “real joy”, 64, 178, 235, 360, 396, 499,
542; reviewing books, 363–64; Sarastro poem idea, 149, 155, 166; on sex and perversion, 57, 58, 59; Sortes Virgilianae attempt, 522–23; on spiritualism, 54–55, 258–59; substituting for Carritt, 425–26, 436; Trinity candidacy, 390, 391, 424–26, 428–29, 437; tutorial and lecturing work, 463–66, 468, 470–74, 504, 506–7, 525, 580–81, 583, 590–91; on war, 152, 254; at Watford with Warnie, 109–10; on women, 193, 195, 260; writing/story ideas, 147, 248, 261, 313, 314, 354, 433, 537–38, 558
Lewis, Warren (Warnie) Hamilton, 8, 32, 61, 83, 117–18, 214, 217, 233, 342, 568, 613; motorbike tour, 418–22, 454–58; visits by, 108–24, 301–4, 313, 536–38
Lewis Papers, 5n8, 11n21–22, 13–14, 217n142, 342, 354n71, 388n9, 395n14, 631
Life of Henry More (Ward), 387, 388
London Mercury (journal), 22, 23, 25
Lord Jim (Conrad), 554
Love’s Labour Lost (Shakespeare), 186
Loyalties (Galsworthy), 142
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 160
MacKeith, Malcom Henry, 641–42
Macmurray, John, 428
Macran, Frederick Walker ‘Cranny’, 29, 44, 91–92, 154, 184–185, 244, 261, 306, 627
Macran, Violet, 162–63, 185
Magic (Chesterton), 46
Magic Flute (Dickinson), 149, 154
Maid’s Tragedy (Beaumont & Fletcher), 204
Malcomson, Miss, 79, 82, 83
Malory, Thomas, 428
Man and Mystery in Asia (Oddenowski), 436
Man’s Man (Hay), 128
Mary Rose (Barrie), 468
Masson, David, 147, 150, 154
McNeill, Jane ‘Janie’, 59, 61, 216, 225, 228, 232–33, 234, 626–27
McNeill family, 223–24
Meade, Dr., 119
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More (Roberts), 527–28
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 90, 317, 335
Milton, John, 146–47, 149, 150, 154, 196, 573–74, 589
Milton (Raleigh), 578–79
Misfire (Lewis), 21, 77
Modern Utopia (Wells), 141, 554–55
Moore, Courtenay Edward (Jane’s husband, ‘ the Beast’), 22, 353, 613
Moore, George, 409–10
Moore, Janie King ‘D’: concerns with Maureen, 18, 31, 37, 570; financial worries, 20, 22, 24; housing challenges, 23, 24, 30, 37, 192–94, 613; ill health/depression, 38, 54–55, 71, 103, 106, 178, 179, 186–87, 195, 198, 199, 202, 226, 245, 262, 296, 327–28, 369–70, 371, 460, 486–90, 496, 519, 564, 565, 601, 611; and Jack’s friends, 72, 84, 86, 89, 96, 98, 587; on Jack’s prospects, 54, 61, 65, 75, 76, 82; upsets with, 430, 528–29, 562, 575; watching Jack’s finances, 555, 561, 578, 579; work projects, 32–35, 64, 67, 68, 90, 128, 129, 154, 165