TCG Letter #280

Tolkien replies to Miss Stanley-Smith of the Deddington Library and confirms he can attend and give a speech at the opening of the new library. He follows with some details about his own writing. He asks that a car be sent, as he no longer has one. He finishes by asking if Mrs. Lionel Hitchens is the mother of a Miss Phoebe Hitchens.

Quotes from the speech, given on 14 December were published in the Banbury Advertiser 19 December 1956, and some other quotes were published in Oxford Mail 15 December 1956.