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TCG Letter #2219
From
Father Christmas
To
John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien
Date
2 December 1933
Type
Father Christmas Letter
Transcript
Complete
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:
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 |
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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 |
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