This may not be all of the exchange, but it shows Lindskoog missing or disregarding Paxch's point, which was "There are and were many who never attended any Inklings meetings, but heard CSL read his unpublished work."
Lindskoog seems to assume that the event described by Hooper is the only possible time Lewis could have read from the DT ms to his friends.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:13:14 -0500
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From: Kathryn Lindskoog <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NO MORE TO BE SAID?
[Lindskoog posted]
<I>In answer to Ann Paxch [....]
You suggest that Mathew heard Lewis read THE DARK TOWER somewhere other than an Inklings meeting. But if you doubt Hooper's account of the event (the only one there is), I wonder why you think the event happened at all.</I>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 03:47:42 EST
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From: Anne Paxch <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: MERELEWIS Digest - 25 Jan 2000 (#2000-54)
<I>In a message dated 26/1/2000 05:03:53 GMT Standard Time, Kathryn Lindskoog writes: [....]
<According to Humphrey Crpenter on page 186 of THE INKLINGS, there is no
record of Mathew ever attending any Inklings meetings before 1946.>
I'm sorry to keep arguing, but what is the relevance of that? There are and
were many who never attended any Inklings meetings, but heard CSL read his unpublished work.
Then there is no more to be said except possibly "I am His Lordship's dog at Kew but tell me sir, whose dog are you?" (on either side).</I>