FACT OF THE DAY:
The U.K. edition of Letters to an American Lady was published in June, 1969 (it was first published in the U.S. on 12/19/1967).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I can obey advice from others which I have often given myself in vain.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/10/1952
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Whom did Lewis start a life-long correspondence with sometime this month in what year?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton, was born today (5/18) in 1862. She went by “Flora.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A country clergyman wrote to the editor (of The Guardian), withdrawing his subscription on the ground that ‘much of the advice given in these letters seemed to him not only erroneous but positively diabolical.'”
Preface to the Second Edition of The Screwtape Letters
(Written on 5/18/1960)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to _____ _____ _____ _____.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited, with a Memoir by Warren Lewis was first published today (4/18) in 1966. Originally it began as a biography.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is more effective through any life rather than our own.”
Letter to Sister Penelope
(First available in Letters of C.S. Lewis published 4/18/1966)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
To whom did Lewis dedicate Till We Have Faces?
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“I can obey advice from others which I have often given myself in vain.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Volume 3 on 6/10/1952)
