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TCG Letter #558 / Carpenter Letter #196

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Katharine Farrer

Date

21 March 1957

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Partial

Tolkien mentions C.S. (Jack) Lewis and acknowledges having limited knowledge of Lewis's troubles and commiserates with Farrer about her health.

Notes

This letter was written, though Tolkien did not know it, on the day that C. S. Lewis was married, in a Church of England ceremony at her hospital bedside, to Joy Davidman, who was believed to be dying.

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