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TCG Letter #2530

From

Miss [Milicent] Standeven

To

J.R.R. Tolkien

Date

8 October 1946

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Unknown

Miss [Milicent] Standeven writes to Tolkien with appreciation for The Hobbit. She had once attended lectures by Tolkien and is a teacher at Greenhead High School in Huddersfield.^{MS. Tolkien 21, fol. 97[1]}

¹ MS. Tolkien 21, fol. 97 ↩

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Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Miss [Milicent] Standeven • 7 December 1946 (#2531)

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The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 331 see entry for Tolkien's reply of '7 December 1946'

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Found in MS. Tolkien 21, (fol. 97) Milicent Standeven, Greenhead High School, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, teacher, with praise for The Hobbit, 8 Oct 1946 (Letters relating to The Hobbit, 1937-1964)

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