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TCG Letter #1458 / Carpenter Letter #195b
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Rayner Unwin
Date
1 March 1957
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien apologizes to Rayner for being exhausted at their previous meeting and says he is recovering from a very stressful school term.
He says that he is starting to look more at the Silmarillion and that it is becoming more clear to him than the last time Rayner visited. Tolkien alludes to a meeting, more like a "court martial" with the Early English Text Society coming up.
Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull note some other subjects from the letterChronology, p. 530[1] including that Tolkien was inclined to negotiate on the offer made by Marquette Archives for his manuscripts. He encloses letters from Bertram Rota on the matter for Stanley Unwin to review.
This letter is held at the 'Tolkien–George Allen & Unwin archive, HarperCollins'.
He says that he is starting to look more at the Silmarillion and that it is becoming more clear to him than the last time Rayner visited. Tolkien alludes to a meeting, more like a "court martial" with the Early English Text Society coming up.
Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull note some other subjects from the letterChronology, p. 530[1] including that Tolkien was inclined to negotiate on the offer made by Marquette Archives for his manuscripts. He encloses letters from Bertram Rota on the matter for Stanley Unwin to review.
This letter is held at the 'Tolkien–George Allen & Unwin archive, HarperCollins'.
1 Chronology, p. 530 ↩
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