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When a little girl wrote to CS Lewis asking him for an explanation of the Chronicles of Narnia, she never expected to get a reply.
But the letter Anne Jenkins from Hertfordshire received when she was just 10-years-old is to be displayed in Queen's University's new CS Lewis Reading Room.
Anne wrote to the Belfast born author in 1961 after being intrigued by a particular passage in The Silver Chair.
"It was where the dead king Caspian is brought back to life by Aslan the lion's blood and Eustace says 'hasn't he died' and the lion says 'yes he has died, most people have you know, even I have, there are very few people who haven't'.
"For some reason this stuck in my brain , so I asked my parents what does he mean by saying that most people have died?
"They didn't know, so they said that I should write and ask him."
In the letter Lewis simply states that the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of the "Crucifixion of Christ and the resurrection".
He also explains that the story of Prince Caspian "tells the restoration of the true religion after the corruption".
So my deeply held belief that it was a metaphor for the struggle between Micro-Breweries and Anheuser-Busch Budweiser Inc is in pieces
