TCG Letter #539

Tolkien was asked to write an obituary for the Royal Society's journal. He suggests Owen Barfield may be willing. Tolkien writes, saying that "I feel his loss so deeply that I have since his death refused to write or speak about him".

The letter is quoted from in the article "Literary Greats Exposed as Gossips and Snipes" by Martin Bentham and is published in the Sunday Telegraph, 7 February 1999.