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TCG Letter #1013


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Kenneth Sisam
Date
?26 April 1926
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien writes to Kenneth Sisam with news that he has finished his modern prose translation of Beowulf.
Notes
Much of the letter remains unpublished but a portion of it was included by Christopher Tolkien in the 2014 volume Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell (see reference). Tolkien includes his edition of Pearl at the same time.
Tags
References
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, p. 2
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 145
This letter is held in the archive of Oxford University Press.
The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien, p. 645


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