TCG Letter #1080

Tolkien advises his student Burchfield about his thesis about Ormulum - the proposed thesis title is remarkably close to a recent German publication that Tolkien (and Wrenn who was on Burchfield's thesis board) were not aware of, but Tolkien thinks it is fine to proceed.

This letter is held in the Bodleian Library archives (Burchfield Papers, Box 4, folder 'R.W. Burchfield, Magdalen College').