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Hello. I recently listened to an old radio show evidently from the BBC, in which a lady named Caroline Reynolds (I think) was collecting and editing Ms. Sayers' letters, and she mentioned C.S. Lewis in passing, saying that he had written that Dorothy Sayers would be remembered as one of the greatest letter writers of the 20th Century. No mention of Tolkien, but this was only a 30 ,minute radio program (or programme if you prefer). An actress read from Ms. Sayers' letters of the 20's and 30's, and they dileanated an affair with an American writer named Cornos (or Kornors, sorry, never heard of him) who evidently she was very serious about, but he dumped her. Then she took up with a chap who was staying with the folks above her, on the next floor. His name was Bill White,and she rode motorcycles, took him to meet her mother (or her folks), and got pregnant by him. He unfortunately had a wife he hadn't told her of, so she decided to have the child and put it up for adoption (the wife helped her with the doctor's fees, etc.), and she bore a son, named (oops, drawing a blank here) and arranged to give the boy to a cousin as if she were arranging an adoption from an unnamed unwed mother. Later, though, she wrote another letter, and came clean with her cousin, admitting the baby was her son, although she never publicly did so, or told the name of the father. (Who the Brits would call a real rotter). Later on the writer she was crazy about moved back to England, and got married and started a family (evidently he said he would never do these things in the Bohemian 20's before he dumped her). She replied to this news by writing him to wish them the best, and said something about she was glad she had a son by a man she didn't love, rather than not having a child with a man she loved too much . . . (it was poetic, but I've probably butchered it). Later on her son went to the same college that Peter Wimsey did. (I am not making this up.) An interesting radio program, It's on the web somewhere, I can give you directions if the copyright police don't shut me down.
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