TCG Letter #1390 / Carpenter Letter #53a

Tolkien writes to Christopher after hearing from his brother Michael that Christopher had been unwell again. Tolkien updates him on home life, with Edith being unwell at the moment.

He remarks on visiting Lewis and Williams recently, on a bitterly cold night. Tolkien also mentions that he was about to, or just had interviewed a F/L Poptawski.^{Poptawski (first name unknown), was a Polish First Lieutenant who Tolkien consulted on the devising of a new technical vocabulary.[1]}