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TCG Letter #1370 / Carpenter Letter #11b


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
C.A. Furth
Date
?10 March 1937
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Transcript
Complete
Tolkien writes to C. A. Furth of GA&U acknowledging the two drawings which were “safely received”, he has placed them in the correct positions among the proof-sheets.

He is also sending corrected proofs and rough end-papers in a separate package.

He comments on the type-setting, it is in the whole done very well and continues on the subject of the proofs, the MS of The Hobbit and asks if a “season of publication” has been decided on? If it is earlier publication, he will attempt to sort the jacket at once.
Notes
Humphrey Carpenter gives this letter as "Undated; February or March 1937" but we know from Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull that this letter is dated c. 10 March, 1937 and we accept that dating as very close to when Tolkien in fact wrote and sent this letter.
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References
Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 29-30, p. 616 (notas de Carpenter)
J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, A2 (quoted from), p. 14
"In 1937 alone Tolkien wrote 26 letters to George Allen & Unwin and received 31 letters in return. On Tolkien’s part these were all in handwriting...", Remembrancer, p. 75


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