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April and May 1944 (Letters no. 60, 69, 72).
It may be mentioned here that my father had evidently discussed
with Lewis the matter of 'true dreams': an important element in
the plot of That Hideous Strength is Jane Studdock's 'tendency to
dream real things', in the words of Miss Ironwood (Chapter 3,
$iii), and this can hardly be a mere coincidence. It is presumably
not coincidental either that there should be so many references to
'Numinor' in That Hideous Strength (published in 1945); see
p. 303 and note 15.
2. On the final text D of Part One the heading of the first page (after
Leaves from the Notion Club Papers ): Part I / The Ramblings of
Michael Ramer / Out of the Talkative Planet' was struck out. The
final text F of Part Two has no heading at the beginning. A pencilled
title page apparently accompanying the manuscript E has 'Leaves
from the Notion Club Papers / II / The Strange Case of Arundel
Lowdham'.
3. A very brief report of an earlier meeting was added at the begin-
ning of the text in the course of the development of Part One.
4. A pointer to this is the fact that in B the name is spelt Loudham
throughout; in E it begins as Loudham but becomes Lowdham in
the course of the writing of the manuscript; in C it is Lowdham
from the first. See further p. 282.
5. Cf. the close relation of the manuscript of The Lost Road and the
original text of The Fall of Numenor, V.9.
6. Beyond Probability is a pun on the title of Lewis's book Beyond
Personality, which had been published in 1944.
7. That Whitburn (and Thoms) is a play on the name Blackwell, the
Oxford bookseller and publisher, is seen from the fact that the
firm was originally Basil Blackwell and Mott.

Leaves from

THE NOTION CLUB PAPERS.

FOREWORD.

These Papers have a rather puzzling history. They were found
after the Summer Examinations of 2012 on the top of one of
a number of sacks of waste paper in the basement of the
Examination Schools at Oxford by the present editor, Mr.
Howard Green, the Clerk of the Schools. They were in a
disordered bundle, loosely tied with red string. The outer sheet,
inscribed in large Lombardic capitals:

NOTION CLUB PAPERS,

attracted the notice of Mr. Green, who removed them and
scrutinized them. Discovering them to contain much that was to
him curious and interesting, he made all possible enquiries,
without result.