Walter Hooper Papers, circa 1940-1980

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Walter Hooper Papers, circa 1940-1980

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Correspondence of Walter McGehee Hooper (1931- ) and colleagues, friends, acquaintances, and admirers of C. S. Lewis. Included are a few letters from Lewis and his brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, to Hooper. Some of the correspondence contains anecdotal material about Lewis, but most letters relate to Hooper's role as a trustee of the Lewis estate, biographer of C. S. Lewis, and editor of posthumous editions of Lewis's work. Included are letters from Roger Lancelyn Green (d. 1987) about the biography he and Hooper wrote about Lewis and about other matters relating to Lewis and his work. Also included are letters to Hooper about Hooper's own career and his assignments as chaplain to Jesus and Wadham colleges. Appended to a few letters are copies of fragments of manuscripts that were sent to Hooper for review. Also included are a typed copy of an epitaph for Helen Joy Davidman Lewis, Lewis's wife, that was dictated and corrected by Lewis, and Hooper's notes on the contents of Lewis's Oxford residence.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Hooper, Walter.

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Walter Hooper was born in Reidsville, N.C., in 1931 and attended the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1954. He served in the U.S. Army for two years and reentered the university as a graduate student in education in 1957. He received a master's degree in education in 1958, and, for a time, taught school in Chapel Hill and at Christ School, Asheville, N.C. Hooper was an instructor of English at the University of Kentucky in 1963, when he went to England and met...