Letters 
TCG Letter #1207
From
G.B. Smith
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
?15 (possibly, less likely, 22) March 1915
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Unknown
Further to Smith's earlier letter ( Letter from G.B. Smith to J.R.R. Tolkien • ?10 March 1915 (#1203)) and Tolkien's assumed reply with typewritten verse ( Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to G.B. Smith • ?10-15 March (#1206)), Smith replies that he has received Tolkien's typed verse. He makes comments on 'The Sea-Song of an Elder Day', 'Outside', 'As Two Fair Trees', and 'Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon'.
Smith advises Tolkien that he should read and learn from "good authors", but that he does think Tolkien's poems are "amazingly good". Smith likes the poem 'Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon'.Tolkien and the Great War references, dated to [22 March 1915][1]
Hammond and Scull suggest as a possibility that Tolkien revising his Eärendel poem on, 17-18 March, might be in response to Smith's letter (entry for 17-18 March 1915).
Smith advises Tolkien that he should read and learn from "good authors", but that he does think Tolkien's poems are "amazingly good". Smith likes the poem 'Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon'.Tolkien and the Great War references, dated to [22 March 1915][1]
Hammond and Scull suggest as a possibility that Tolkien revising his Eärendel poem on, 17-18 March, might be in response to Smith's letter (entry for 17-18 March 1915).
1 Tolkien and the Great War references, dated to [22 March 1915] ↩
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