TCG Letter #1442 / Carpenter Letter #146a

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]}