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TCG Letter #1506 / Carpenter Letter #319a

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Roger Lancelyn Green

Date

18 January 1971

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Partial

Tolkien had written to Roger Lancelyn Green to try and find out about a story he remembers reading in Childhood.

Notes

The story was "Puss-cat Mew" by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen which first appeared in his collection Stories for My Children (1869).

It was reprinted in Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy edited by Douglas A. Anderson.

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