TCG Letter #1375 / Carpenter Letter #36a

Tolkien offers his sympathies to his son Michael as he has been bedridden with a bad cold. He has been very busy and feels he has neglected his son with a lack of letters from home.

Tolkien leaves for Scotland on Monday/Tuesday to deliver a lecture^{on 8 March, 1939, Tolkien will deliver the Andrew Lang Lecture at St. Andrews, the lecture, being On Fairy-Stories.[1]}