TCG Letter #2219

Father Christmas writes to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla. He says that the business of Christmas has begun and it has been very cold. He has received many letters from them and made notes from them. He sends love to them all, including John who is at the Oratory School.

In 'Toward an Annotated Father Christmas' Ian Hollenbaugh further notes the following details:

Note that this letter is delivered simply “By hand” (top right of envelope), rather than the more usual “North Pole Post” (since Letter from Father Christmas to John Tolkien • 22 December 1920 (#1926)), though letters have been known to come by various other means in the past: “by Southern Post” in Letter from Father Christmas to John and Michael Tolkien • 20 December 1926 (#1931), “by direct Reindeer Post” in Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael and Christopher Tolkien, also Aslaug, Mummy, Auntie Jennie, and Daddy • 21 December 1927 (#1939), by “special messenger” in Christmas Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael and Christopher Tolkien • 20 December 1928 (#1940), by “CHIMNEY POST” in Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • 30 November 1932 (#2226), and “By gnome-carrier” in Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • 23 December 1932 (#1954). This delivery most resembles that of Christmas 1928, which came “direct”.

1933	A 76	B 94	C 95	D 99	E 04	F 09	G 12	H 19	I 20	J 23
Letter "2 December" "Very cold here at last", 2 pages							98	112	112	112
Transcription "2 December"				86	60	87	99	113	113- 114	113- 114
Envelope - "By hand" "M.&Ch.&P. Tolkien"							99	113	113	113
Letter - "Another Christmas! and I almost thought...", 3 pages	1 28		L7				103 105 106	117 119 120	117 119 120	117 119 120
Transcription	27- 28		L7v	87- 88	61- 62	88- 93	101	115	115- 123	115- 123
Art - Red "F.C" banner / Polar bear fighting goblins / color polar landscape / FC in bed / "Christmas 1933"	26 27 28	2/RC	28 29 30	89	63	92	109	123	123	123
verso of Polar bear fighting goblins etc. "Love from Fr. Christmas 1933"								122	122	122
Art - Night sky with earth, moon and planets			RP	156	111	159	192	208	208	208
Envelope "Dec 22" "To The Tolkiens"	2		35	84		89	102	115	115	115
Stamp - blue/white - north pole with star in upper right, "1933 X" at bottom	2		35	2	FT	89	102	115	115	115