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TCG Letter #2137

From

Stanley Unwin

J.R.R. Tolkien

Date

2 March 1938

Type

Unknown

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Stanley Unwin sends Tolkien a reader's report on Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet.

Notes

The report does not favour the story, to which Tolkien will write a couple of days later^{Carpenter #26: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Stanley Unwin • 4 March 1938 (#30)[1]} arguing in favour of the work.

¹ Carpenter #26: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Stanley Unwin • 4 March 1938 (#30) ↩

On This Day

Carpenter #245: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Rhona Beare • 25 June 1963 (#620)

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