TCG Letter #1643

E.V. Gordon writing to Tolkien. Sisam has said that his Pearl edition is too long and Gordon asks Tolkien if he would be willing to "prune" it for him, finding it much too difficult to cut his own work. Tolkien will reply giving plenty of sympathy and offers to read and comment but that he considers the work done and that Gordon should finish the last parts himself.^{see Carpenter #18a: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to E.V. Gordon • 22 November 1937 (#1374)[1]}