Letters 
TCG Letter #1442 / Carpenter Letter #146a
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Allen & Unwin
Date
10 June 1954
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien addresses queries about The Two Towers by Allen and Unwin's head reader. Tolkien found the close reading extraordinary.
A large publisher will have readers who are specially selected for certain types of books, and in George Allen & Unwin A Remembrancer by Rayner Unwin, he gives some details on how readers were selected.see p. 42 (original ed.) onwards for details of how Stanley Unwin worked with new submissions.[1]
A large publisher will have readers who are specially selected for certain types of books, and in George Allen & Unwin A Remembrancer by Rayner Unwin, he gives some details on how readers were selected.see p. 42 (original ed.) onwards for details of how Stanley Unwin worked with new submissions.[1]
1 see p. 42 (original ed.) onwards for details of how Stanley Unwin worked with new submissions. ↩
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