TCG Letter #1435 / Carpenter Letter #142a

Tolkien thanks Katharine Farrer^{Farrer, based in Oxford was a writer of detective novels.[1]} for her “charity” at a time he is suffering illness. He felt that the Sir Gawain broadcast on BBC Radio was not especially good.^{see Chronology, p. 440, entry for 6 December, 1953.[2]}

Tolkien has a galley of Volume One of The Lord of the Rings which he has read only once, intended for Farrer to read, and he would welcome any of her thoughts.