TCG Letter #1251

Rayner Unwin of GA&U writing to Pauline Baynes, as "said in my scribbled postscript we all of us are entranced by your design for the box of The Lord of the Rings triptych." They will make payment. He mentions that he took it to Tolkien on Friday "he was enchanted and said that you had exactly his eye for landscape and asked if when we had finished using it for technical reproduction he could have your original on permanent loan in his study. We willingly agreed . . ."