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TCG Letter #3 / Carpenter Letter #3


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Edith Bratt
Date
26 November 1915
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Written while Tolkien was training as part of the Lancashire Fusiliers.He was stationed at Rugeley Camp, Staffordshire.[1] He is working on his poem 'Kotirion among the Trees' and mentions sending it to the T.C.B.S.The Tea Club and Barrovian Society. This group was made up of Tolkien and his friends, including Chris Wiseman, G.B. Smith, Rob Gilson and others.[2]

1 He was stationed at Rugeley Camp, Staffordshire.
2 The Tea Club and Barrovian Society. This group was made up of Tolkien and his friends, including Chris Wiseman, G.B. Smith, Rob Gilson and others.
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References
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), pp. 82-3. (The T.C.B.S. was began during the Summer term 1911 at King Edward School. See various entries re. T.C.B.S. and TCBS.)
Tolkien and the Great War, p. 94 ('All the hot days...'); p. 104 ('The usual kind of morning...'); p. 110 (Kotirion textual history)


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