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TCG Letter #1080


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Robert Burchfield
Date
11 July 1953
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien advises his student Burchfield about his thesis about Ormulum - the proposed thesis title is remarkably close to a recent German publication that Tolkien (and Wrenn who was on Burchfield's thesis board) were not aware of, but Tolkien thinks it is fine to proceed.

This letter is held in the Bodleian Library archives (Burchfield Papers, Box 4, folder 'R.W. Burchfield, Magdalen College').
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References
The Ormulum, ed. Nils-Lennart Johannesson and Andrew Cooper, (Early English Text Society, Oxford, 2023), p. xiii


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