15 Apr, 2022
(edited)Edited by Trotter on 2022-4-16 6:39:45 AM UTC
Edited by Trotter on 2022-4-27 10:05:29 AM UTC
Edited by Trotter on 2022-8-5 5:33:04 AM UTC
2022-4-15 5:26:02 AM UTC
Lot 186 - A hand-written letter by J.R.R. Tolkien
27th April 2022 9am BST
J.R.R. TOLKIEN INTEREST: A hand-written letter by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) on headed paper for 76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford, probably written to Clemence Dane, dated "11 Sept. 1957", reading "Dear Miss Dane, I did not succeed in thanking you as I should have liked for your kindness to me in the full sense of that use-battered word: generosity and penetrating sympathy. It was a great pleasure meeting you. I wish we could have had more conversation. Yours sincerely, JRR Tolkien"
NOTE: Clemence Dane CBE is the pseudonym of English novelist and playwright Winifred Ashton (1888-1965)
Estimate
£2,000 - £4,000Unsoldhttps://www.easyliveauction.com/catalo ... -antique-auction-lot-186/Clemence Dane -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemence_DaneTCG Letter -
https://www.tolkienguide.com/guide/letters/321
16 Apr, 2022
2022-4-16 2:40:58 AM UTC
Lett 202 （10 Sept. 1957）: “I suddenly found myself the winner of the International Fantasy Award, presented (as it says) ‘as a fitting climax to the Fifteenth World Science Fiction Convention’. What it boiled down to was a lunch at the Criterion yesterday with speeches, and the handing over of an absurd ‘trophy’. A massive metal ‘model’ of an upended Space-rocket (combined with a Ronson lighter). But the speeches were far more intelligent, especially that of the introducer: Clémence Dane, a massive woman of almost Sitwellian presence.”
27 Apr, 2022
2022-4-27 11:49:48 AM UTC
They went down to £1800 but no bids and the letter was passed.
27 Apr, 2022
2022-4-27 12:00:04 PM UTC
Trotter wrote:
They went down to £1800 but no bids and the letter was passed.
maybe people spent their money on the new FS LotR :)
13 May, 2022
2022-5-13 5:22:05 AM UTC
13 May, 2022
2022-5-13 5:56:16 AM UTC
Not really a terribly exciting letter, but I'm still somewhat surprised it didn't sell.
13 May, 2022
2022-5-13 9:01:30 AM UTC
Stu wrote:
Not really a terribly exciting letter, but I'm still somewhat surprised it didn't sell.
I was a little surprised considering it also relates to Clemence Dane who herself was a writer (and a playwright). It at least makes it more interesting than some letters where Tolkien literally just says "thanks for enjoying my work" and sold for a couple of thousand quid.
25 May, 2022
2022-5-25 10:54:19 AM UTC
Sold for £1700 and the Auctioneer stated that this was the most looked at item in the auction.
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