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TCG Letter #608 / Carpenter Letter #233

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J.R.R. Tolkien

Rayner Unwin

Date

15 November 1961

Type

Unknown

Transcript

Partial

Allen & Unwin agree to publish The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

Tolkien included version D3 of 'The Dragon's Visit'.^{See Collected Poems, p. 758[1]}

¹ See Collected Poems, p. 758 ↩

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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

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References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 309

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 449

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

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), p. 439

The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien, p. 758

J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, A6, p. 178; Di1, p. 350

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