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The Father Christmas Letters (George Allen & Unwin, 1976)

Author
J. R. R. Tolkien
Editor
Baillie Tolkien
Illustrator
Translator
Released in September 1976, this collection of letters from Father Christmas was the first selection of what has become known as The Letters from Father Christmas.

Writing as Father Christmas, Tolkien would give his children news and details of the happenings at the North Pole.
ISBN
48231304
References To This
Letter from Father Christmas to Michael Tolkien • 23 December 1924 (#1929), p. 1
Letter from Father Christmas to John and Michael Tolkien • 20 December 1926 (#1931), p. 1, pp. 7-8
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • 21 December 1933 (#1955), pp. 1-2, pp. 26-8
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • Christmas Eve 1935 (#1957), p. 1, pp. 31-2
Letter from Father Christmas to John Tolkien • 22 December 1920 (#1926), pp. 3-4
Letter from Father Christmas to John Tolkien • Christmas Eve 1923 (#1927), p. 4
Letter from Father Christmas to John Tolkien • 23 December 1924 (#1928), p. 4
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • 23 December 1932 (#1954), p. 4, pp. 21-5, p. 44
Letter from Father Christmas to John and Michael Tolkien • Christmas 1925 (#1930), pp. 5-6
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael and Christopher Tolkien, also Aslaug, Mummy, Auntie Jennie, and Daddy • 21 December 1927 (#1939), pp. 9-10
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael and Christopher Tolkien • 20 December 1928 (#1940), pp. 11-2
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • 22 December 1929 (#1941), pp. 13-4
Letter from Polar Bear to Boys (John, Michael, and Christopher) • November 1929 (#2223), p. 13
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • Christmas Eve 1930 (#1942), pp. 15-6
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • 23 December 1931 (#1943), pp. 17-20
Letter from Father Christmas to Christopher Tolkien, Priscilla Tolkien • Christmas Eve 1934 (#1956), pp. 29-30
Letter from Father Christmas, llbereth, secretary to Fr Christmas and Polar Bear to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • 23 December 1936 (#1958), pp. 33-4, p. 44
Letter from Father Christmas to John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla Tolkien • Christmas 1937 (#1959), pp. 35-7
Letter from Father Christmas to Priscilla Tolkien • Christmas 1938 (#1960), pp. 38-40
Letter from Father Christmas to Priscilla Tolkien • 22 December 1941 (#1963), pp. 41-2
Letter from Father Christmas to Priscilla Tolkien • Christmas 1943 (#1965), pp. 41-2


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