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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:
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”.



1933A
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 pages98112112112
Transcription "2 December"86608799113113-
114
113-
114
Envelope - "By hand" "M.&Ch.&P. Tolkien" 99113113113
Letter - "Another Christmas! and I almost thought...", 3 pages1
28
L7103
105
106
117
119
120
117
119
120
117
119
120
Transcription27-
28
L7v87-
88
61-
62
88-
93
101115115-
123
115-
123
Art - Red "F.C" banner / Polar bear fighting goblins / color polar landscape / FC in bed / "Christmas 1933"26
27
28
2/RC28
29
30
896392109123123123
verso of Polar bear fighting goblins etc. "Love from Fr. Christmas 1933"122122122
Art - Night sky with earth, moon and planetsRP156111159192208208208
Envelope "Dec 22" "To The Tolkiens"2358489102115115115
Stamp - blue/white - north pole with star in upper right, "1933 X" at bottom2352FT89102115115115
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