TCG Letter #44

This letter from Tolkien was began at midnight on his 21st birthday. He writes that his love for Edith remains and that he wants to marry her. He was now free to again contact Edith, from whom he had been separated by his custodian Father Francis Xavier Morgan.^{See Letter from Edith Bratt to J.R.R. Tolkien • January 1913 (after 3 January but no later than 7 January) (#1133) and Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Edith Tolkien • January 1913 (after 3 January but no later than 7 January) (#1134).[1]}