Letters 
TCG Letter #1302
From
Rob Gilson
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
26 December 1915
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Rob Gilson replies to Tolkien's letter about some problems Tolkien is having. Gilson remarks on ‘the extra blackness of your fate in these dark days’ (Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford).
Gilson had heard rumours that he would be deplouyed to Egypt, which made him happy about not going to the trenches, but then learned he would be going to France after all, which depressed him.
He forwarded Kortirion among the Trees to Wiseman (see Letter from Christopher Wiseman to J.R.R. Tolkien • 30 December 1915 (#1303)), and has made a copy for Smith. He likes the poem very much though he makes one or two criticisms.
Gilson had heard rumours that he would be deplouyed to Egypt, which made him happy about not going to the trenches, but then learned he would be going to France after all, which depressed him.
He forwarded Kortirion among the Trees to Wiseman (see Letter from Christopher Wiseman to J.R.R. Tolkien • 30 December 1915 (#1303)), and has made a copy for Smith. He likes the poem very much though he makes one or two criticisms.
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