A PREVIOUSLY unknown letter written by Oxford don and author CS Lewis sold for £4,600, three times its estimated value, at an auction in South Cerney, near Cirencester, yesterday.

The two-page letter, addressed to a Mrs Ellis, is dated August 19, 1945, and addresses the subject of joy versus pleasure.

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