Your edition of The Screwtape Letters most likely has a preface dated July 5, 1941. This inevitably led to some confusion among readers, so Lewis took the opportunity of the book publication to write a preface. Intriguingly, the demonic letters were printed in the Christian newspaper with no preface. Readers clamoured for copies of the The Guardian, and the book that came out in 1942 was a bestseller in the U.K. Each letter was printed serially May 2 through Novemin the Anglican weekly, The Guardian. The Letters are a correspondence between Screwtape, a senior demon, and his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter with his first field assignment. Lewis’s BBC talks that made his voice well known throughout Britain, his fame was begun with The Screwtape Letters. This was Lewis’ first popular book, and it was a treat to spend some time with the file. Beyond that, I found very little.Īfter a day and a half of doing routine things and not getting very far, I asked the helpful staff for their typescript of The Screwtape Letters.
All I really found was that the things Lewis underlined or marked seemed to be beautiful passages. I had gone to look at the marginalia in Lewis’ Bibles-to see if his notes and highlights could tell us anything about his Bible reading habits. I was working on background material for my PhD thesis and was excited to make this pilgrimage. Wade Center at Wheaton College near Chicago. It is time to invite you all into some of the things I have discovered.Īfter presenting a paper on teaching Screwtape in 2012, I traveled to the Marion E. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters for a few years now. As many of you know, I have been working on C.S. I am excited to share this intriguing research breakthrough with all my Pilgrim in Narnia readers.
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