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Florence "Flora" Hamilton and Albert James Lewis married at St. Mark's Church, Dundela, Belfar, Northern Ireland
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Warren "Warnie" Hamilton Lewis (C.S. Lewis's brother) bon on July 16, at home in Dundela Villas (one of a pair of semidetached houses rented by the Lewis family from a relative, Thomas Keown, in Strandtown, a suburb of Belfast)
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Clive Staples Lewis born at home in Dundela Villa Belfast, Northern Ireland, Nov 29
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August 6-27 Flora, with the assistance of a nurse, taker her two sons on holiday to Ballycastle, County Antrim; a seaside resort north of Belfast.
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In June and July, Flora, along with nurse/housemaid Lizzie Endicort, takes her sons to the seaside resort of Castlerock.
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In may, Flora and her sons vacation at the Spar Hotel in the seaside resort town of Ballynahinch, County Down. During this holiday C. S. Lewis chooses the name of Jacksie for himself. The name is later shortened to Jacks and finally to Jack.
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1904 From June to August, Flora and sons vacation once again at Castlerock. Also in the month of August construction begins on the new Lewis family home, to hc named Little Lea, a short distance from Dundela Villas.
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On April 21, the Lewis family moves into Little Lea.
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On May 10, Warnie is enrolled by his mother at Wynyard School, Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
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In September Flora and her sons go on holiday to the seaside resort of Killough, County Down.
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1906 In September, Flora and her sons vacation again at Castlerock.
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From August to September, Flora and sons go on holiday to Berneval in northern France.
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1908 On February 15, Flora undergoes major cancer surgery.
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On April 2, C. S. Lewis' grandfather, Richard Lewis, dies.
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On May 20, Flora takes Jack to Larne Harbor, north of Belfast, for a holiday while Warnie is away at school.
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On July 8, Warnie returns home early from Wynard School because of his mother's illness.
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Flora Lewis dies on August 23, Albert's fortv-fifth birthday.
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In September, Joseph Lewis, Albert's brother, dies. Also this month Albert sends Jack to Wynyard School along with Warnie.
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In May, Albert and his sons visit Dublin together.
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Then in September Warnie becomes a student at Malvern College. Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England,
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July 12 is Jack's last day as a student at Wynyard, The school is soon closed and the headmaster, Robert Capron, is later certified insane.
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On August 19, Albert and sons visit Albert's brother, William, in Scotland,
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In Septembcr Jack is enrolled as a student at Campbell College, Belfast, not far from Little Lea.
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In January, while Warnie continues as a student ant Malvern College, Jack is enrolled as a studetn at Cherburg Preparatory School, just up the hill. While Jack is a student here he becomes an atheist, partly under the influence of his matron, Miss Cowie. Warnie and Jack both become "confirmed smokers" during their times at school.
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In September, he begins private tutoring under William T. Kirkpatrick in Great Boolhan, Survey England, in preparation for the entrance examination to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
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1913 In May of this war, Warnic decides on a career in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC)
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In July, Warnie completes his education at Malvern College.
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In Auguts, Albert and his sons vist Dunbar, Scotland for a joint holiday with the family of Alberts brother, Richard Lewis.
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On September 18, Jack enrolls at Malvern College.
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In January, Warnie wins a prize cadetchip to Sandhurst and enters the Academy there in February.
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On August 5, Warnie is recalled to Sandhurst
holiday at Little Lea because of England's declaration
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On September 19, Jack begins private tutoring under W. Kirkpatrick, also an atheist, for whom he will develop a great affection. Kirkpatrick prepares Jack to the entrance examination for Oxford Univ.
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Jack receives a scholarship to University of Oxford.
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April 28, Jack informally begins his studies at Oxford.
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In May Jack is drafred into a cadet battalion and is housed at Keble College, Oxford while in training to take a commission. His roommatc is fellow Irishman. E. F. C. 'Paddy" Moore.
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In September, Jack is appointed as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry
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On November 29, his nineteenth birthday, Jack arrives in France where he will serve the trenches of the Great War.
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On April 15, Jack is wounded by an English shell on Mount Bernenchon during the Batlle of Arras near Lillers, France.
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On April 24, Warnie visits Jack in the Liverpool Merchant's Mobile Hospital in Etaples, France.
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May 25, Jack is transferred to Endsleigh Palace Hospital
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In July, Jack is transferred again, this time to Ashton Curt Hospital in Bristol, Eng where he can be close to Paddy Moore's mother, Mrs. Janie King Moore.
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In September, Paddy Moore is officially declared as dead.
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November 11, the Armistice is signed and the Great War is over.
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In January, Jack is demobilized from the army and returns to Oxford as a student Here he eventually establishes a household with Janie King Wine ande her daughter Maureen in fulfillment of a promise made to Paddy to care for his family in the event of his death.
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In March, Jack has his first book published by Wllliam Heinemann; it is a collection of short powems entitled: Spirits in Bondage, a Cycle of lyrics.
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In August, Jack and Albert have a serious quarral over Jacl's school expenses.
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On November 19, Wamie is reassigned by the army to service in England.
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Jack earns a First Class degree in Classical Honour
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On March 9, Warnie sails on the flppam to Sierra Leone, West Africa where he continues his army service.
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On March 22, W. T. Kirkpatrick dies.
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By the summer, Jack has moved out of his college housing
and into a rented house in Warneford Road, Oxford with
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In July, Albert visits Jack, briefly, in Oxford. Jack keeps
his housing arrangement with the Moores a secret from
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Another First Class degree, this time in the Final Honour School, is won by Jack. (est date)
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On April 7, Warnie arrives home from his service in
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On August 1, Jack and the Moores move to Hillsboro,
a home in the Western Road, Headington, a suburb of
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On August 5, Warnie meets the Moores for the
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In October, Warnie is assigned to an army position in
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Another First Class degree, this time in English Literature,
is gained by Jack. He is one of a small handful of people to
earn a "Triple First" at Oxford in the twentieth century. -
Jack substitutes for E. F. Carritt as a philosophy tutor for
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May 20, Jack is elected to a fellowship in English literature
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Jack publishes Dymer, an epic poem
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Warnie is reassigned to duty in Woolwich, England.
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Warnie sails for duty in China on the Derbyshire
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On May 2, Albert retires as Belfast Corporation County Solicitor, a position he has held since 1989
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Jack becomes a theist during Trinity Term at Oxford.
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On July 25, Albert goes to a Belfast nursing home for x-rays. He is later diagnosed with cancer.
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On August 13, Jack returns home to Little Lea to nurse his father in his final illness.
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Albert Lewis dies on September 25.
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On February 24, Warnie sails from Shanghai, via the United States, returning home to help Jack settle their father's estate.
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In April, Warnie and Jack are together at Little Lea for the last time.
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On May 10, Warnie decides to edit and arrange the Lewis family papers, which becomes a lifelong project of great importance to future C. S. Lewis studies.
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On May 15, Warnie is reassigned by the army to service in Bulford, England.
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On May 25, Warnie decides to accept Jack's and Mrs. Moore's invitation to live with them once he retires from the army.
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On July 7, the Lewis brothers and Mrs. Moore inspect an Oxfordshire home for sale known as The Kilns. They purchase the house later that month and move into this lovely house in Headington Quarry, a suburb of Oxford, during the month of October.
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In January, Jack and Warnie take their first walking tour together. This one is a 54 mile trek along the Wye Valley in Wales.
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On May 9, Warnie returns to the Christian faith.
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On September 19, Jack has a very important discussion about Christianity and myth with J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson.
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On September 28, Jack returns to the Christian faith while on a motorcycle ride with his brother to Whipsnade Zoo.
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On October 1, Jack writes to Arthur Greeves, his Belfast friend, about his return to Christian faith.
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Then on October 5, Warnie returns to China for his second tour of duty there.
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On December 21, Warnie retires from the RASC and
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Jack and Warnie take another walking tour of the Wye
Valley in January. They continue their practice of a January
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Jack publishes The Pilgrim's Regress.
The informal literary gathering known as the Inklings
begins to meet under Lewis' leadership. Members of the
group eventually include: J. R. R. Tolkien, Warnie Lewis,
Hugo Dyson, Robert Havard, Nevill Coghill, Charles
Wrenn, David Cecil, Colin Hardie, Owen Barfield and
Charles Williams, among others. The group will soon
meet on Thursday nights in Lewis' rooms at Magdalen
College, and on Tuesdays at at the Eagle and Child pub in
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Jack publishes The Allegory of Love. He also meets the
author, Charles Williams, and begins a friendship with
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Jack publishes Out of the Silent Planet, the first in his
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Jack begins a pen friendship with Sister Penelope, an
Anglican nun living in a religious community in Wantage,
England. She has written to Jack about Out of the Silent
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In September, England declares war on Germany.
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On September 2, child evacuees arrive at The Kilns
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On September 4, Warnie is recalled to active service and assigned to Catterick, Yorkshire. Jack begins volunteer service as a religious lecturer to the Royal Air Force.
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In October, Warnie is reassigned to Le Havre, France.
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In May, Warnie is evacuated with his unit from Dunkirk to Wenvoe Camp, Cardiff, Wales.
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Jack publishes the Problem of Pain.
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In August, he begins serving as a private soldier with the 6th Oxford City Home Guard Battalion.
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In October, he decides to begin seeing an Anglican priest for weekly spiritual direction. He chooses as his spiritual director Father Walter Adams, one of the priests of the Anglican Society of Saint John the Evangelist in Cowley, a suburb of Oxford.
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Jack also begins presidency of the Socratic Club, an Oxford Christian debate society, which position he will hold until 1954.
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Jack gives BBC broadcast talks beginning in this year and continuing through 1944. Warnie begins serving as Jack's secretary due to the flood of mail he receives as a result of the BBC broadcasts. These talks will later be collected and published as Mere Christianity in 1952.
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Jack publishes The Screwtape Letters with Geoffrey Bles, Ltd., after having them circulated in ?he Guardian, a Church of England newspaper.
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Warnie begins writing his first book, 7he Splendid Century: Some Aspects of French Life in the Reign ofLouis XIV, which will be published in 1953.
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Jack publishes Perelandra, the second in his science fiction trilogy.
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In February, Warnie and Jack travel to Durham in northern England where Jack delivers the Riddell Memorial Lectures, which will be published later in the year under the title, The Abolition of Man.
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Jack publishes That Hideous Strength, the third in his science fiction trilogy.
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WII ends
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Charles Williams dies
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In June, Jack and Warnie travel to Scotland where Jack
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Jack publishes Miracles. His portrait appears on the cover of Time Magazine - Sept 8
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Jack begins work on his autobiography.
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Jack publishes The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The other six books in The Chronicles of Narnia will be published one per year through 1956.
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On January 10, Jack receives a letter from American
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On April 29, Mrs. Moore is admitted to Restholme, a nursing home in Oxford.
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Jack writes to the Prime Minister of the UK declining the honor of
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Mrs. Moore dies, January 12.
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Jack and Joy Gresham meet in September after having corresponded at length.
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Joy returns to the United States in January. After separating from her husband, William Lindsay Gresham with her she returns to England in December, this time with her two young sons, David and Douglass. They visit the Kilns for four days.
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Jack publishes English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
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He is elected Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge and delivers his inaugural lecture there on his birthday, November 29.
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On December 3, Jack gives his last tutorial at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Jack publishes his autobiography, Surprised by Joy
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He assumes chair in Cambridge.
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During the summer, Joy and her two sons move from London to 10 Old High Street, Headington, just one mile from The Kilns. She publishes her commentary on the Ten Commandments entitled Smoke on the Mountain, with a foreword by Jack.
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Jack publishes Till We Have Faces.
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Jack and Joy marry in a civil ceremony at the Oxford registry office, April 23, so that Davidman may obtain British citizenship and avoid deportation to the United States.
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By November, Joy is near death from a recurrence of cancer.
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Jack marries Joy in a death-bed ecclesiastical ceremony in the Churchill Hospital, March 21, 1957. The priest, Peter Bide, prays for Joy's healing at this time. By December, Joy is walking again.
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In July the couple honeymoon in Ireland
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. By December, Joy is walking again.
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Jack publishes Reflections on the Psalms.
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By June, Joy's cancer is arrested
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In October, x-rays reveal the return of Joy's cancer
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Jack publishes The Four Loves
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Three months after a physically painful trip to Greece with Jack, Joy dies on July 13.
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Jack publishes A Grief Observed and An Experiment in Criticism
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During the summer Jack meets correspondent Walter Hooper. In the absence of Warnie, who has gone to Ireland for an unknown period of time, Jack invites Hooper to serve as his secretary.
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Jack is admitted to the Acland Nursing Home following a heart attack.
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In August, Jack returns to the Kilns.
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In September, Warnie returns from Ireland and resumes his duties as Jack's secretary, Walter Hooper having returned to the United States to wind up his affairs there in preparation for a move to England.
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Jack dies on November 22, 1963, the same day as President John F. Kennedy and writer Aldous Huxley.
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly On Prayer and The Discarded Image published posthumously
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Arthur Greeves dies, August 29
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Warren Lewis dies, April 9