HLS Letters
HLS to Cornelia 5-7-43, ironically in a Mother's Day letter; he manages to both idolize Lewis and mimic Cornelia's self-effacing style in the same paragraph:". . . Mother, of all the people I know, and all the people I know of, there is no one that I admire as much as your husband. I think that one of my major mistakes in my life was that I didn't see more of Dad when it was possible. I want to make an attempt to learn to think. I am an uneducated fool at present and I show no promise of changing. I think that it partly may be my egotistic instinct that made me avoid the company of anyone who was not also a damn fool. Knowing about it probably won't prevent my making the mistake hereafter, though, because I'm too instinctive an ass. And even though I know it was wrong, I can't tell what was wrong in my environment so that you could help Joan to avoid the pitfalls I've found so regularly. I seem to be a total loss to the human race all around. Ah well, I was just one of the chances that didn't pan out. Try, try, again."
