BIB_ID
234544
Accession number
MA 6135
Creator
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
Display Date
1961-1963.
Credit line
Gift of John M. Thayer, 2003.
Description
8 items (12 p.)
Notes
Victor R. Thayer was an engineer from Newark, Delaware; his son, John, donated the collection to the Morgan Library.
Provenance
John M. Thayer, Wilmington, DE.
Summary
Concerning Thayer's essay "The Philosophy of a Man," which concerns the "dichotomy between those educated in science and engineering and those educated in the liberal arts and humanities." Includes three letters from Lewis and related material: (1) carbon copy of letter from Thayer to Lewis, 1961 Dec. 22; (2) note from Lewis to Thayer, Oxford, 1962 Jan. 6, with env.; (3) letter from Lewis to Thayer, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1962 Jan. 7, with env. and transcription; (4) copy of letter from Thayer to Lewis, 1962 Jan. 25; (5) copy of letter from Thayer to Lewis, 1962 Feb. 22; (6) copy of letter from Thayer to Lewis, 1962 Mar. 27; (7) note from W.H. Lewis, C.S. Lewis's brother, to Thayer, Oxford, 1962 Mar. 30, with env.; (8) letter from Lewis to Thayer, Cambridge, 1963 Apr. 7.
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