Beschreibung:

Series of four autograph letters signed ("C.S. Lewis") to Anthony Spearing ("Dear Spearing", "Dear Mr Spearing"), the first congratulating him on his fellowship and commenting on Spearing's essay on Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, beginning by apologising ("..."He's a fool without his Book", said Caliban, and you catch me without most of mine. The best I can do by Dead Reckoning is as follows... I'm sorry I can't give you anything better..."); the remaining three making arrangements for tutorials ("...I gather I have been inflicted on you as a "supervisor" so I suppose we ought to meet...") and for dinner ("...dinner-jacket and rendez-vous in my rooms at 7.30..."), with a comment on Spearing's work ("...Most interesting and an interpretation (whether one finally agrees with it or no) certainly worth powder and shot..."); with two leaves headed "Notes" consisting of twenty-eight densely written points of analysis on Piers Plowman, 8 pages, some creasing, 4to (255 x 205mm.) and 8vo (205 x 130mm.), The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford and Magdalene College, Cambridge, [November 1957 to 1960]