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TCG Letter #1759


From
Edith Tolkien
To
Alan Rook
Date
16 May 1939
Type
Autograph Letter
Transcript
Complete
Edith writes to Alan Rook to invite him and Mr. St. John to visit the Tolkien's next Sunday.
Notes
Alan Rook (1909-1990) a student at Oxford in the 1930s, had possibly studied under Tolkien, and was editor of the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry, the journal to which Tolkien had previously contributed the poem "Goblin Feet" in 1915.
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