This version, just two months later than the June version, includes some insights from a Walter Hooper talk recently reprinted in Sehnsucht, a few more footnotes (there should have been more footnotes in certain places), the full name of 

I added a note on the architect of the “dark tower.” Listed whether it was Flew or Crombie at the Socratic Club. A note on which Rackham illustration with Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods Lewis saw. I removed the “out of body” experience on April 15, 1918. I added the death date of George H. Stevenson, Lewis's history tutor at Univ. And I added the fact that Every and Bethel published “Mr Lewis’s Peace Proposals” in Theology in February 1941.

This is the last installment of my lengthy proofreading of the entire chronology. I made a few changes, most of them fairly unimportant. For example, I noted that Kathy Kristy, a child who wrote to Lewis, is the future Mrs. Timothy Keller, I added some historical information from Michael Ward’s 2021 book on The Abolition of Man, I fixed a few typos such as italicizing all references to Warren's boat the Bosphorus, I explained elevenses in every place it is used as coffee usually drunk at 11...

With this edition, I have read through 1200 pages. The next update will be the result of the last proofreading. I have fixed some minor typos, I made some additions to the summary of some years (other summaries at the start of each year could probably be improved, so let me know if you have a suggestion), and I made a correction on a date (also very minor). Like the last update, this update benefits from Arend Smilde's collection of unpublished letters of Lewis and the various reviews of Lewi...

In this version of "Chronologically Lewis," I have now proofread 800 pages. The material is getting more interesting (and also easier and faster for me as a result), since I am now reading in the mid-1940s, a much more productive period in Lewis's life than previous decades. I have changed the date of the first meeting of the Inklings, based on an article in the Journal of Inklings Studies by Don W. King, and I have corrected a handful of typographical errors. A few more changes were made to ...

As of this update, another one hundred pages have been proofread, now totalling the first 700 pages. Many improvements (I thought it was perfect?!). I include here information about the Gollancz 1963 reprint of Phantastes and Lilith, which used Jack’s Preface. I added more about Lewis's Laval University doctorate. I incorporated an occasional improvement of the prose and a clarification of the narrative. For example, there is a bit more information on artist William Orpen. Vera Henry is now...

This installment, including another 100 pages of proofreading, gives the origin of the term “Thessaly,” which Lewis used (and may have invented). I have highlighted it in the Spotlight, which changes from time to time. I'm pleased to have discovered that with lots of help from Dr. Robin Darwall-Smith. There are also some corrections and clarifications, some improvements in the writing and elimination of some redundancies and excessive verbiage, and an occasional first name added here and ...

The major change in this version is to add these words to the second paragraph of most years: Events of uncertain date this year: That means that those events which follow that heading happened in that year, but we don't know the day or month. I also added the significance of the location Ty-Isa, which was the home of Richard Lewis, Warren and Jack's paternal grandfather. I have counted all of the entries per month and have corrected the number. I noticed some words that were accidentally pas...

I added the following to this version: On March 8, 1951, Lewis wrote to John Philip Collins about a talk he would be giving to the Kipling Society. I added a bit more information about his stay at Sister Penelope's Convent in Wantage in April 1942. The poem, “Apologist’s Evening Hymn,” is included in a letter to Sister Penelope on July 29, 1942, because Lewis states in his letter, “I’ve just completed” the poem, perhaps even on this day. I also added a footnote to give a source fo...

This version, with about 1,200 more words, has quite a few additions. It identifies Mr. R. as Alfred Rowse. In September 1944, “Myth Became Fact,” originally to be titled “A Reply to Mr. R.” (Mr. R. being Rowse,) was published in World Dominion. The Spotlight mentions that on Saturday, July 18, 1959, C. S. Lewis wrote to Miss Doris Allan, Secretary for the Commission to Revise the Psalter. about having to take a later train that will get him to Selwyn College too late for the start of...

I have now completed adding notations from the parts of Lewis' diary that were not published. They all appear in The Lewis Papers and are accessible, but not widely so, since The Lewis Papers have not been published. There are several days in January 1923 (the 25^th being one of them) with a lot more on Jack. In addition, I have much more on the following dates (and probably more dates than this): August 1-6, 1923; March 31, 1924; Feb. 13, 1925; Feb. 28, 1925; July 9, 1926. I am also beginning...

In one sense, this chronology will never be finished. New information will pop up and beg to be included, while new ways of organizing and presenting what’s here will also develop. But this major update formally concludes this project, begun during the Fall of 2004, nearly thirteen years ago. I have now just finished a read-through of all of The Lewis Papers and have recorded everything I could learn from those papers for the lives of C. S. Lewis and his brother Warren. That means that ever...

This update—with 300 pages now proofread on this reading—contains, most importantly, the summary contents of the recently discovered (thanks, Charlie Starr!) letters from the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, some additional directions or locations, some underlinings, some minor corrections of typographical errors (including a couple of “howlers”), some additional notes on people and places that are mentioned, and an explanation of the word “mufti.”

This version of the chronology contains more about the post-Jack years of Warren Lewis, especially his holidays in Ireland, which he took with Len and Mollie Miller, as well as in the Walberswick area of East Anglia, where June Freud and her husband lent him the use of their cottage when she and her husband Clement were elsewhere. Whenever Warren took these holidays, he seems to have made a deal with the Millers—if you do the driving, Len, and the cooking, Mollie (although they ate out a lo...

I have just finished proofreading (again) the first hundred pages. I have been looking for improved formatting, corrections of spelling, more complete information (such as the mention of an occasional author's name instead of just the title), and context (with the elimination of contradictions in context). This has resulted in the discovery of a few mistakes, such as the listing of two honorary doctorates in 1946, the conferral of the first one probably being an error (although it remains in ...

There is actually one step prior to doing more of Warren Lewis's diaries--The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. This update is based on additional information that has come from reading the first half of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. Occasionally, I was able to remove the word “presumably” from a date that the Inklings met, added some data from meetings between Jack and Tollers, an occasional reference to an Inklings meeting not otherwise noted, footnoted some references more accurately (in...

This chronology is about 3,000 words longer than the previous one. It contains especially information about letters written by Jack during the first years of his life, through 1914, from Collected Letters, Vol. I. As usual, I found a couple of letters and a couple of incidents I had previously missed. Included in this version also are some notes from The Lewis Papers, an unpublished set of papers, letters, diaries, etc. that Warren Lewis put together.

This posting corrects some errors in information about Joy Davidman, Jack's wife from 1956 until 1960. A study of dates and events and comparisons of the same have provided a check and balance. I have removed some redundancy, eliminating two events that appeared twice, one of each of them in the wrong place. I have also made some additions to this document, based on the completed reading of William Griffin's fine biography of Lewis, Clive Staples Lewis.