Soon after their mother's death, Jack was sent across the North Channel to join Warren at an English boarding school named Wynyard in Watford, Hertfordshire, just northwest of London, where they both endured a harsh headmaster named Robert Capron. ("Jack") and Warren Lewis had only each other for comfort and support. In 1908, their mother died from cancer and as their father mourned her, C. Lewis referred to his older brother Warren ("Warnie") as "my dearest and closest friend," their lifelong friendship was formed as the boys played together in their home Little Lea, on the outskirts of Belfast, writing and illustrating stories for their created world called "Boxen" (a combination of India and a previous incarnation called "Animal-Land"). He wrote on French history, and served as his brother's secretary in the later years of C.S. 10/10/38." The dedicatee, Warren Hamilton Lewis, was a British historian and officer in the British Army. But if you should dislike the tale, Don't say so and thus spoil its sale: Keep quiet! W.H.L. What's more, I also think that you, as being friendly to us two, should try it. Well, speaking as dedicatee I felt that it was up to me to buy it. Inscribed by the Lewis' brother Warren Hamilton Lewis on the front free endpaper to whom the book is dedicated, "This book. Lewis' important space trilogy including the dedicatee's (Lewis' brother's) copy of Out of the Silent Planet, the rarest book in the series.
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