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TCG Letter #1375 / Carpenter Letter #36a


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Michael Tolkien
Date
1 March 1939
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien offers his sympathies to his son Michael as he has been bedridden with a bad cold. He has been very busy and feels he has neglected his son with a lack of letters from home.


Notes
Tolkien leaves for Scotland on Monday/Tuesday to deliver the Andrew Lang Lecture at St. Andrews on the 8th March, the lecture being On Fairy-Stories.
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References
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), p. 55, p. 611 (Carpenter note)
Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 66, p. 620 (notas de Carpenter)
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 242 (see entry for 8 March 1939)


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