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TCG Letter #2147
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Stanley Unwin
Date
?26 April 1938
Type
Unknown, Telegram
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien forwards the cablegram he received from Houghton Mifflin Letter from Houghton Mifflin to J.R.R. Tolkien • 25 April 1938 (#1860)[1] notifying him of The Hobbit's win as best Children's Book for Spring.News of this was published later in The Horn Book Magazine, May - June, 1938, p. 130. They note that "The New York Herald Tribune's Prize and Honor Books. For the Second Annual Children's Festival, the Herald Tribune judges - Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Miss Mabel Williams, Mr. Stephen Vincent Benet, Mr. Robert Lawson and Mrs. May Lamberton Becker, Editor of the Herald Tribune's page, "Books for Young People" - have awarded one prize of $250 to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit as the best book of the spring for younger children.[2]
2 News of this was published later in The Horn Book Magazine, May - June, 1938, p. 130. They note that "The New York Herald Tribune's Prize and Honor Books. For the Second Annual Children's Festival, the Herald Tribune judges - Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Miss Mabel Williams, Mr. Stephen Vincent Benet, Mr. Robert Lawson and Mrs. May Lamberton Becker, Editor of the Herald Tribune's page, "Books for Young People" - have awarded one prize of $250 to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit as the best book of the spring for younger children. ↩
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