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TCG Letter #1009


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Stanley Unwin
Date
17 November 1937
Type
Unknown, Autograph Letter Signed
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien writes to Stanley Unwin, including a letter he received from a Mlle Tardivel Letter from Mlle Tardivel to J.R.R. Tolkien • c. First week of November 1937 (#2107)[1] who had written asking about a possible French translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien suggests that Simonne d’Ardenne would make a suitable translator who has already translated Farmer Giles of Ham into French.Wayne G. Hammond's A Descriptive Bibliography notes that Simonne d'Ardenne had translated an earlier draft of Farmer Giles of Ham.[2]

2 Wayne G. Hammond's A Descriptive Bibliography notes that Simonne d'Ardenne had translated an earlier draft of Farmer Giles of Ham.
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Assumed ALS based on a comment by Rayner Unwin in Remembrancer p. 75


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