LEWIS (C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’)

Re-used envelope signed with initials “C.S.L.” with the original direction to C. S. Lewis crossed out addressed to “Miss J. Flewett”, at “Kingswood, Gipsy Lane, London S.W.15”, which has also been crossed out and it has been re-directed to “Miss Jill Raymond” in Worcestershire, together with a later Typed Envelope addressed to Mrs C. Freud, 2 envelopes, the second postmarked Oxford, 1948 and

Flewett's family lived in Barnes, south-west London, where her father was the senior classics master at St Paul's school. She and her two sisters were evacuated from London to escape The Blitz. In the summer of 1943, at the age of 16, she moved in with the Lewises at their home The Kilns, as a house keeper. Her favourite writer was C.S.Lewis and initially she had no idea she was living with the same man. She developed what she later called a "tremendous crush" on him. She was highly regarded in the household and Lewis referred to her in a letter as "without exception the most selfless person I have ever known." After two years, she left the Lewises to take up a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), her fees being paid by Lewis. She had a successful stage career under the name of Jill Raymond and later married Clement Freud and finally became Lady Freud.

Item Date:  1966

Stock No:  42213      £575

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