The Lefay Fragment

The alleged addition to the Space Trilogy, "The Dark Tower," is now considered to be a fake. Is this LeFay Fragment more authenticated?
 
It is, it can be read in one of Lewis' personal notebooks today still that is preserved in the Bodleian library in Oxford and also contains other different texts by Lewis as well.
The text itself is also very much Lewisian, the same Humor, polish and writing is present and identical to the other Narnia Novels.

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I think it is also the same Notebook that also contains some of Lewis notes and ideas for the LWW sequel he was planning afterwards (some interesting ideas there too) and an earlier Version of Eustace's Journal in VDT, even though his name was Bill Birdbittle then.
 
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Actually, after some dispute about the Dark Tower story (primarily spearheaded by Lewis scholar Kathryn Lindskoog), a source emerged just a few years ago telling him how Lewis had shown him the MS at one point. This clarified the main point of contention; i.e. that nobody had seen the MS before Walter Hooper produced it. Apparently Lewis admitted to this source that the story wasn't his usual style. the fact that he never attempted to publish it speaks of what he thought of it.

I don't know about this "LeFay fragment". Despite the validation of Dark Tower, I'm suspicious of anything that came through Hooper's hands purporting to be by Lewis but that nobody else ever saw. Hooper wasn't a good friend of Lewis', but rather someone who showed up at the end of his life and elbowed his way into Lewis' confidences. He ended up acting as self-appointed gatekeeper of Lewis' estate. Here's an article about him life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hooper.
 
I can only vouch for the validity of the Lefay Fragment again by saying that it is in one of Lewis original Notebooks that still is in the Lewis collection of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
 
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