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Thomas Howard: Beyond Narnia

Socrates in the City

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Lewis Carroll's Letter to the Unwashed Public

I was teaching school at a boys' school in England, and David Young and I were always, wave David or something. And being young and brash, I said I'm going to be in Oxford during the Easter VAC, as they go. And could I just pop out to the kilns and see you? And he acted as though there was nothing that would delight him more. He just treated the great unwashed public who beat a path to his door in those days as though he was just delighted. So I went out, he told me what bus to get and where to get off. In those days, if you've been to Oxford recently and tried to make a visit

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