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TCG Letter #2142


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Basil Blackwell
Date
5 July 1973
Type
Typed Letter Signed
Transcript
Complete
Tolkien confirms that Basil Blackwell was his first publisher.
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References
Adventurers all : tales of Blackwellians of books, bookmen, and reading and writing folk, p. 85
Oxford Poetry 1915, Goblin Feet
This letter is in the Merton College, Oxford Library Blackwells archive


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