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TCG Letter #1321

From

G.B. Smith

To

J.R.R. Tolkien

Date

4 March 1916

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Unknown

G.B. Smith sends Tolkien a part of his poem 'The Burial of Sophocles' and asks for a copy of the Odyssey to be sent to him.

Notes

This poem would be published, edited by Tolkien in Smith's lone poetry collection A Spring Harvest.

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