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TCG Letter #2352


From
Dan Davin
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
30 May 1951
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Dan Davin, Kenneth Sisam's successor at the OUP, writes to Tolkien about retrieving his material on the Clarendon Chaucer.
Notes
Tolkien replied on 8 June, Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Dan Davin • 8 June 1951 (#154).

Tolkien and Davin had met between 21 and 25 May, when Davin had asked Tolkien to hand over the material for the Clarendon Chaucer which was located at the lodge at Merton College. The material will be collected on 8 June at 11.30am. See Chronology, p. 396 and Tolkien's Lost Chaucer, p. 35 for more details about Davin's drastic measures.
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