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TCG Letter #2182

From

War Office

To

J.R.R. Tolkien

Date

October 1939

Type

Autograph Letter

Transcript

Unknown

Tolkien is informed by the War Office that for the present he will not be called to work as a cryptographer. Hammond/Scull note that he will in fact not be called up to serve at all.^{Chronology, p. 247[1]}

¹ Chronology, p. 247 ↩

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Carpenter #304: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Clyde S. Kilby • 4 June 1968 (#677)

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