The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3

Chapter One

1950

During the spring of 1949 Lewis began dreaming of lions and by May 1949 he had written the first of the Chronicles of Narnia—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This was hardly finished when he had the idea for the next story, Prince Caspian—or 'A Horn in Narnia' as it was first called. By the time this volume of letters opens Lewis was at work on yet another Narnian story, The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader', the manuscript of which would be ready for Roger Lancelyn Green¹ to read when he visited Lewis at the end of February 1950.²

To Jonathan Francis 'Frank' Goodridge (P):³

Magdalen College
Oxford
[1 January 1950]

There have been very few pupils in my 26 years' experience as a tutor for whom I can speak so confidently as I can for Mr. Frank Goodrich.⁴ As a scholar he has quality which his actual degree did not at all represe ... read full excerpt from: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 ebook