TCG Letter #1203

While at Magdalen College, G.B. Smith writes to Tolkien. Hammond and Scull note that Tolkien had sent Smith his poem on Eärendel, or the first part of what he will later call 'The Bidding of the Minstrel'. Smith receives the poem well and believes it very good. He asks Tolkien to send him typewritten copies of his poems which he will share with Rob Gilson, if Tolkien wishes.

In a note (see reference) Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull describe the manner of Smith's letters, namely that he does not date them and only gives the day of the week. They note that John Garth in Tolkien and the Great War (2003) gives different dates for some of these letters.