TCG Letter #1579

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

War Office

Date

12 February 1917

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Transcript

Complete

Tolkien writes to the War Office from Great Haywood where he is currently residing to inform them of this change of address.

Notes

On 23 January he was examined at 1st General Hospital by the War Office Medical Board. He is still not well enough for service and his leave was extended until 22 February. He will be examined again on 27 February and it is decided that he is unfit for service for at least two months. He is sent to rest at Furness Auxilary Hospital in Harrogate.^{See Chronology, entries for 23 January, 12 and 27 February, 1917[1]} ^{Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull note in Chronology (see reference), a passage from Biography, p. 95 in which Humphrey Carpenter says that Tolkien was passed fit in April of 1917. It has since been seen in documents which were not available at the time that this is in fact not the case, and that no details of Tolkien being passed fit exist for April 1917. They also summise that Tolkien would not have been passed fit to be stationed in Yorkshire until at after he had been treated at Harrogate.[2]}

¹ See Chronology, entries for 23 January, 12 and 27 February, 1917 ↩

² Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull note in Chronology (see reference), a passage from Biography, p. 95 in which Humphrey Carpenter says that Tolkien was passed fit in April of 1917. It has since been seen in documents which were not available at the time that this is in fact not the case, and that no details of Tolkien being passed fit exist for April 1917. They also summise that Tolkien would not have been passed fit to be stationed in Yorkshire until at after he had been treated at Harrogate. ↩

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