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TCG Letter #589

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

To

Allen & Unwin

Date

17 February 1938

Type

Unknown

Transcript

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Tolkien informs his publisher that Houghton Mifflin are yet to return to him the five orginal watercolour paintings for The Hobbit.

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