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