TCG Letter #2011

On or around publication day of The Hobbit, Tolkien sends an inscribed copy ^{https://tolkienlibrary.com/press/987-t ... it-association-copies.php[1]} to his former student and friend Stella Mills.

It is assumed that with any manuscript/proofs or copies of books sent that a cover letter or note would also be enclosed. We unfortunately do not currently have an example of those cover notes.

Later in the mid 1950s when Tolkien was preparing The Lord of the Rings for publication he sent Stella Mills proof copies of the books, one was inscribed to her by him.^{Tolkien Collector No. 18, p. 28[2]}