TCG Letter #2262

Tolkien writes to a former student, Sarah Harvey, about an exchange they had involving some drawings.

Hammond and Scull note that:

In Catalogue No. 27 by the London bookseller Peter Jolliffe, item 487 (p. 40), this letter was offered together with an ‘ink sketch by J.R.R. Tolkien, a cartoon of himself sitting in a chair, beneath which he has written “But which of them, Madam? He has several in Oxford.”’ This is said to have been drawn in response to the student’s ‘cartoon of herself sitting in a chair, beneath which she has written “But Professor, I’ve been introduced to Grendel’s mother!”"