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TCG Letter #510


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Jared C. Lobdell
Date
December 1963
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien in this brief excerpt says that Lewis "was a voracious and retentive reader".
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References
Word and Story in C.S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice, "C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Stories and Their Eighteenth-Century Ancestry", an essay by Jared Lobdell, p. 230


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