TCG Letter #2539

A staff member from GA&U's translations department write to Tolkien. The Swedish publisher who has agreed to publish The Hobbit have asked if Tolkien would mind some of his illustrations being replaced by a well-known painter from Sweden.

In an undated postcard ^{Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to George Allen & Unwin [translation dept.] • c. 17 May - June 1947 (#2540)[1]} Tolkien will reply that he does not mind, except in the matter of the maps which he thinks will look better if unchanged.