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TCG Letter #644 / Carpenter Letter #270


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Rayner Unwin
Date
20 May 1965
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Tolkien had sent Unwin the typescript of his new story Smith of Wootton Major. It seemed to Unwin to need the companionship of other stories to make a sufficiently large book. This suggestion came just as Tolkien was revising The Lord of the Rings, so as to produce a new edition that would be protected by U.S.A. copyright. The need for this arose because an American publisher had issued an unauthorised paperback edition of the book, without the consent of Tolkien or Allen & Unwin, and (at first) without paying royalties.
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