TCG Letter #2352

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.