TCG Letter #3 / Carpenter Letter #3

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

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. ↩

Tags

Lancashire Fusiliers

T.C.B.S.

Kortirion

References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 8

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), p. 4

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.)

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Reader's Guide Part 2 (2017), pp. 1281-88 (entry for T.C.B.S.)

J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, Di1, p. 350

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 16

Tolkien and the Great War, p. 94 ('All the hot days...'); p. 104 ('The usual kind of morning...'); p. 110 (Kotirion textual history)

War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 106

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