Collected Letters Volume One : Family Letters 1905-1931

C.S. Lewis was a most prolific letter writer and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships and feelings.

In this collection are the letters Lewis wrote to J.R.R.

Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken and Dom Bede Griffiths. To some particular friends, such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Lewis wrote over 50 letters. The letters deal with all of Lewis's interests: theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, children's stories as well as revealing his relationships with family members and friends.

This first volume of Family Letters: 1905-1931 covers Lewis's boyhood and early manhood, his army years, undergraduate life at Oxford and his election to a fellowship at Magdalen College.

Lewis became an atheist when he was 13 years old and his dislike of Christianity is evident in many of his letters.

The volume concludes with a letter describing an evening spent with J.R.R.

Tolkien and Hugo Dyson when he came to see that he was wrong to think of Christianity as one of many myths.