TCG Letter #487

Marquette archive details., See 7/1/10 and 4/2/39

Christie's 20th Century Books and Manuscripts, 2 December 2003 Sold for GBP 1,135

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 612

Christie's 20th Century Books and Manuscripts, 2 December 2003, pp. 25-6 (A two page letter to Tolkien's aunt Jane Neave, dated 15 November 1961. The lot description includes quotes discussing The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, as well as his former chair at Oxford: "I wasn't a professor of "Literature" - which I still think is not a good basis for academic study". The first page of the letter is reproduced in a photograph.)