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TCG Letter #1746
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Allen Mawer
Date
c. 3 and 11 December 1931
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Unknown
Tolkien writes a letter to the noted scholar, Allen Mawer,Mawer was born in London and was a noted philologist and researcher into Viking activity in the British Isles. He founded the 'English Place-Name Society.[1] on the subject of the word Lydney. This letter is almost certainly in connection to Tolkien's letter to R.E.M. Wheeler Letter from R.E.M. Wheeler to J.R.R. Tolkien • 2 December 1931 (#1743)[2] on the excavation at Lydney Park, Gloucester.
1 Mawer was born in London and was a noted philologist and researcher into Viking activity in the British Isles. He founded the 'English Place-Name Society. ↩
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