By Morgan
Letter from Tolkien to Zettersten (19 May 1959)
29 May, 2016
2016-5-29 10:46:15 AM UTC
2016-5-29 10:46:15 AM UTC
Letter up for auction in Sweden (and thus perhaps not showing up on everyone's radar):
Crafoord auctions
Crafoord auctions
688 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973). TYPED & SIGNED LETTER. Typed & Signed letter to the Swedish biographer professor Arne Zettersten. 1 A 4-page sent from J.R.R. Tolkien, 76 Sandhurst Road, Headington, Oxford 19th May 1959 to Dr. Arne Zettersten in Lund Sweden. Signed "Yours sincerely J.R.R. Tolkien". They met as scientific linguists which ended in life long friendship. Zettersten published the biography J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process: Language and Life, 2011. Tolkien writes to Zettersten as a linguist collegaue.