Joy, he would write in his memoir, later, “must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. He adds a short postscript to the letter: “Don’t you know the disappointment when you expected joy from a piece of music and get only pleasure: Like finding Leah when you thought you’d married Rachel!” Lewis goes on to write of how “the physical sensations of joy and misery are in my case identical”, and of how “just the same thing happens inside me on getting the good or the bad news”. the unseen CS Lewis letter Photograph: PR “We haven’t been able to discover who Mrs Ellis is – there’s no envelope, because the owner just found it in the book.” As far as we know it’s unpublished,” said Chris Albury of Dominic Winter Auctioneers.
“A private owner bought the book some years ago, and some time later discovered the letter inside it. The handwritten letter had been enclosed within a copy of A Problem of Painbought from a secondhand bookshop, and is set to be auctioned later this month. My private table is one second of joy is worth 12 hours of Pleasure. It shocks one awake when the other puts one to sleep.
“It jumps under one’s ribs and tickles down one’s back and makes one forget meals and keeps one (delightedly) sleepless o’ nights. Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony,” he writes. “In fact I meant by ‘things going well’ just that security – or illusion of security – which you also regard as unhealthy. Before he began work on the memoir, however, Lewis tells Ellis in this letter that “everything is going well”, but goes on to explain that he does not mean “joy” by this.
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