TCG Letter #1945

Tolkien writes to Furth of GA&U. He agrees that the revised binding would do. He had hoped that the 'wavy line' would be transformed into something and mentions that he tried to find an "ornamental dragon-form" to include. He returns the binding with letter and agrees to its use.

He asks Furth what the "Americans" think of the specimens he sent to them.^{Houghton Mifflin Co.[1]} He notes that he has not done any further work on illustrations and will wait until he has heard back from America.^{Hammond and Scull note, however, that Tolkien does not wait to hear if HMCo. want more illustrations and begins to produce preliminary sketches.[2]}

Tolkien also provides the name of the editor of the Oxford Magazine. Russel Meiggs, at Keble College to whom a copy of The Hobbit should be sent.^{History of the Hobbit, pp. 888-9[3]}

An unfinished sketch of a dragon is on the verso of this letter.^{Noted in Hammond's Bibliography, p. 16[4]}

This letter is held at the Tolkien–George Allen & Unwin archive, at HarperCollins.