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Autograph letter addressed from "Buckingham Palace", to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, presenting his compliments, and requesting an order for the Belgium custom house.

Autograph letter in French, addressed from "20 Berners Street, Oxford Street", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer.

Autograph letter addressed from "36 S. Audley St", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, inviting him and Elizabeth Van de Weyer to breakfast to meet William Wordsworth.

Autograph letter addressed from "3 Lowndes Street, Belgrave Square, London", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, inviting him to meet with White prior to returning to Brussels.

Autograph letter addressed from "Saville Row", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, saying that his friend Hudson Gurney has had a portrait engraved of his friend Prince Cimitile.

Autograph letter addressed from "5 Orme Square, Bayswater", to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, presenting his compliments and inviting him to an early tea table at his house on Thursday evening to introduce him to some friends.

Autograph letter addressed from "Lansdowne House", signed, to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer, thanking him for the loan of his books.

Documents relating to a cottage, barn and 26 acres, 2 roods and 38 perches of land.

Recorded on page 114 of the Muniment Book.

Recorded on page 118 of the Muniment Book.

Parties: (1) Magdalene College (2) Robert Andrew

Counterpart lease for a cottage, barn, and lands in Saltfleet for 10 years from 1758.

Parties: (1) Magdalene College (2) John Sewell

Counterpart lease for a cottage, barn, and lands in Saltfleet for 10 years from 25 March 1798.

Autograph letter in French, addressed from "Londres ", to Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer.

Letter from C.S. Lewis to Sir Henry Willink (Master of Magdalene).

Francis had told him that his opinion might be sought about whether to include those 'curious' passages in a new publication of the Pepys diary. As he couldn't be sure of being able to attend the next Governing Body meeting he was writing to set out his opinions.

A prudential and moral problem was involved.

The prudential one was concerned with (a) the chances of prosecution and (b) with the chances of disrepute and ridicule. In the presence if Master and Mickey [Mickey Dias] it would be ridiculous for him to express an opinion both were lawyers]. As to 9b0 a journalist might make the College distasteful t the public for a week or two but what was a few weeks or years in the life of the College and a decision shouldn't be made on that basis.

It came down to whether the inclusion of such passages would lead someone to commit an immoral act they would to have done if they had suppressed them. The effect of words on people's behaviour is impossible to foresee. But the chances of any lechery being caused by a few obscure passages begin published in a very long and expensive work seemed unrealistic.

A very severe moralist might argue that it was not enough to be unable to forsee heaven and one ought before we act to be able to forsee with certainty an absence of heaven. But that was an argument against doing. He was therefore in favour of printing the whole unexpurgated Pepys.

Photocopy of a letter from C.S. Lewis to Adele Stoessel in which he describes himself.

Transcript

Dear Adele Stoessel,

The autograph comes below the letter. I am 64 - a year older than this century - and bald - and fat - with a Boxer dog and a Siamese cat - and I talk too much and I breathe too loud - and I don't like oysters or gin or a crowd - and the smell of the sea is my favourite smell. That's about all I can think of to tell,

Yours
C.S. Lewis