Public to see rare CS Lewis letters

Published on 21/08/2012 00:46

RARE unpublished letters written by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis have been donated to Queen’s University in his native Belfast.

The collection of 11 letters was found in an attic in England by the son of one of Lewis’s friends, Captain Bernard Acworth.

In the correspondence with Capt Acworth, who was founder of an organisation opposed to the teaching of evolution as scientific fact, committed Christian Lewis outlined his own views on religion and the origins of life.

Reverend Dr Richard Acworth, from Portsmouth, yesterday gave the letters Lewis sent to his father to the university, where the public will be able to view them in its CS Lewis Reading Room.

The room is entered through a replica of the wardrobe door used in the film based on Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.