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Lewis (C.S., writer and scholar

Lewis (C.S., writer and scholar, 1898-1963) Autograph Letter signed to John Gilbert, editor of Spring Books,

1p., 8vo, Headington, Oxford, 4th October 1960, "I am sorry I can't accept your offer. Even if this were - and it isn't the sort of thing I do well, my other commitments would not allow me the necessary leisure"; and 20 other pieces of correspondence, mostly to John Gilbert, including: Sacheverell Sitwell, E.M. Forster, C. Day Lewis, Laurence Olivier, Aldous Huxley, Michael Redgrave, Edmund Blunden, Richard Aldington, Alistaire Cooke, Stirling Moss, Samuel Beckett, André Maurois, James Thurber etc., most excusing themselved from writing an introduction to a book, v.s., v.d.(21)