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Lewis (C.S.) A.Ls.s. re evil & Milton

Lewis (C.S., writer and scholar, 1898-1963) Autograph Letter signed "C.S.Lewis" to R.T. Davies,

1p., 8vo, n.p., 20th November 1957, a discussion of the nature of good & evil, "in the being devoted to itself what is bad is not the presence of of self-love but the absence of 'other-love'" and "Satan's evil strength of will is vigorous not by being evil but by being strength of will", folds; Autograph Letter signed "Jack" to R.T.Davies, as "Reg", 2pp., The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford, 13th June 1959, "Thank you for the article in Mauriac. I have read, of his, only the Pharisienne and admired it greatly", fold; and a small group of related material, including a T.N.s. from Lewis to Davies, discussing the aereals & daemons in Milton's Comus; the essay by Davies on Mauriac mentioned above; Lewis's Dante's Statius, signed by Lewis [as Jack Lewis] on upper wrapper, wrappers worn, n.d.; and 5 others, C.S.Lewis, R.T.Davies or Owen Barfield, v.s., v.d.

***Reginald Thorne Davies, Reader in English Literature at Liverpool University, editor of several works including works on Chaucer, Malory and the Arthurian Legend. Owen Barfield was involved in an apocryphal correspondence with C.S.Lewis regarding Malory's Morte d'Arthur..