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TCG Letter #2757

From

Rob Gilson

J.R.R. Tolkien

Date

7 May 1916

Type

Unknown

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Gilson writes that he spent several hours happily visiting the Amiens cathedral.

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Tolkien and the Great War, p. 146 (Amiens cathedral)

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