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TCG Letter #475


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Allen & Unwin
Date
28 May 1937
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien, writing to GA&U approves the dust-jacket for The Hobbit but feels the sun would be better with a finer outline. He prefers the green binding and agrees that the title needs to be centered, though he does not like the italics used by GA&U.This letter written and sent on the same day as Carpenter #14: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Allen & Unwin Ltd. • 28 May 1937 (#14).[1]

This letter is held at the Tolkien–George Allen & Unwin archive, at HarperCollins.
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J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, A2 (quoted from), p. 13
"In 1937 alone Tolkien wrote 26 letters to George Allen & Unwin and received 31 letters in return. On Tolkien’s part these were all in handwriting...", Remembrancer, p. 75


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