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The Inklings - C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends

Humphrey Carpenter

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Letter from Inklings to Dr Warfield M. Firor • 11 March 1948 (#2436), pl. 9 between p. 140 and p. 141

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Carpenter #11c: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Priscilla Tolkien • c. 16 April 1937 (#1371), p. 57 - Tolkien's walking holiday is mentioned.

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Carpenter #91a: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien • 29 November 1944 (#1401), pp. 121-2

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Carpenter #132: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Father John Tolkien • 10 February 1952 (#314), Contains the signatures of the Inklings thanking Dr Firor for an earlier ham (March 1948)

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