2110-8-4-5

Magdalen College Oxford

Jan 29th, 1937

Dear Lord Tweedsmuir

Thank you for your kind letter. The Latin quotation is from Horaces Ars Poetica (v. 73): but lest you should think me a better Horatian than I am, let me confer that I also first met these useful and comfortable words quotes (in Paul Bourgets Un Saint) and that it took me years to track it down. Pretty admissions on both sides between two products of Lit. Hum! but I will keep your secret if you will keep mine.

No, we have never met: but, like everyone else, I know you very well in print and am delightful that a book of mine should have repaid in any degree the pleasure I owe you. For Witch Wood specficially I am always grateful: all that devilment sprouting up out of a beginning like Galt's Annals of the Parrish, that's the way to do it. With many thanks,

Yours sincerely C. S. Lewis