Charter

Accepted on a motion put to the meeting of December 12, 1969, as amended on May 25, 1970.)

We, the founding members of the New York C.S. Lewis Society, have as our purposes:

(1)To bring together those in the local area who share for C.S. Lewis, among all authors, a special admiration and affection and an active interest, which have been tried by time, and will persist;

(2)To meet, and to consider all aspects of the life and work of this rare man, and any matters on which his thought may shed light;

(3)To assemble and keep a repository of short writings by and about C.S. Lewis, not collected into book form; to help as we may toward an eventual definitive edition of the writings of C.S. Lewis; to encourage scholarship and publication stemming from his writings;

(4)To establish and maintain contact with others throughout the world who share our active interest in C.S. Lewis;

(5)To make discreet overtures to persons not familiar with the writings of C.S. Lewis, but who are clearly afoot on their life's pilgrimage and who may have - even unaware - an affinity for the Christian Spirit that he represents, and to whom his writings may prove, as to us, welcome guides.

Lewis became famous with The Screwtape Letters (1941) and his WWII broadcast talks on BBC radio (1941-44). The Time article and cover appeared in 1947.