TCG Letter #1446 / Carpenter Letter #165a

Tolkien notes that the proofs sent to him arrived later than expected^{Carpenter #137e: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to P.H. Newby • 8 July 1953 (#1427)[1]} and notes that this will hurry matters, after his "days of leisure" have been cut short.

He describes the changes he will make and what is needed for those changes to be put in and sent back for consideration and proofreading.

In the newly published letter^{Letters, 2023[2]} Tolkien says that he will put in by hand the blanks on page 402, and that he will want to see a "revise" [sic] of it. In a that follows it,^{Chronology, p. 484[3]} Tolkien says that he will want a final revised set of the pages of the narrative of volume 3.