TCG Letter #1208

Gilson writes to Tolkien explaining that he cannot keep weekends open for T.C.B.S. meetings and that he needs to know at once which weekends work best for Tolkien.

In a lengthy commentary on some of Tolkien's poetry, Gilson offers improvements and general feedback to Tolkien's work. He offers Tolkien criticism of the poem 'Sea-Song',^{See Sea-Song of an Day, no. 13 in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien[1]} suggesting Tolkien's syntax becomes obscure and offers an example from 'Outside',^{Poems, no. 14[2]}