NMLP P-003822 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis · Faber & Faber · 1961

UK Faber true first, as by N. W. Clerk; the US Seabury Press edition followed in 1963. Lewis and his agent Spencer Curtis Brown placed the manuscript with Faber, where director T. S. Eliot approved it. The pseudonymous first issue with the Clerk attribution and 'First published in mcmlxi' verso is the key identifying point.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-003822 for "A Grief Observed" by C.S. Lewis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-003822, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).