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TCG Letter #1225


From
Christopher Wiseman
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
15 April 1915
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Wiseman informs Tolkien that the 'Council of Oxford' is off. He also notes he has received Tolkien's poems, sent on to him from Rob Gilson. He is working on a musical setting for Wood-shine and asks if Tolkien could visit him next weekend. In the event, Tolkien informs Wiseman the next day Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Wiseman • 16 April 1915 (#1226)[1] that he cannot make it to see him.

Wiseman notes to Tolkien that in his poem 'Wood-sunshine' that he had "mistook elves for gnomes".
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Tolkien and the Great War, p. 64 (JRRT's poems circulate); p. 67 (Abortive Oxford meeting); p. 76 ('mistook elves for gnomes...'); p. 100 (Gilson sent him poems)


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