The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, completed

Posted by Joel Heck on Saturday, June 22, 2013
With this new version of Chronologically Lewis, I upload a document that incorporates all of the information I could glean from Tolkien's letters. While not much longer than what I uploaded when halfway through the letters, it contains three interesting additions and then some. Those additions are a quotation from Feb. 8, 1951, when Lewis met his friends at the Royal Oxford for dinner after having lost the election for the Chair of Poetry to C. D. Lewis. The other two additions surround Lewis' death. In the first instance, Tolkien adds a few details about the funeral  service on Nov. 26, 1963, specifically who was in attendance, and in the second instance, Tolkien mentions a memorial service held at Magdalen College that following Saturday, Nov. 30. That was a service I had not known about, although it certainly makes sense that they would have had such a service at his Oxford college. At least two other items are quotations from Tolkien's letters, after Lewis' death, about the influence of Lewis upon his writing of The Lord of the Rings.

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This is the latest Lewis chronology in Word format:

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The file that appears below lists all works of C. S. Lewis in chronological order (now 528 in number) in the location where they were first published or delivered (if spoken) as far as I am able to determine. Corrections are welcome. This version, slightly revised and added on May 13, 2020, includes a corrected date for "Transposition" on June 9, 1946.

This file describes what is happening in Oxford, Cambridge, the UK, and Europe at the time that Lewis writes his various poems, essays, and books, dividing the life and writings of Lewis by academic topic, i.e. English, Philosophy, History, etc. 

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