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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