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TCG Letter #655 / Carpenter Letter #282


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Clyde S. Kilby
Date
18 December 1965
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Transcript
Complete
Professor Kilby, of Wheaton College, Illinois, had met Tolkien while visiting Oxford in 1964. He now offered to return to England and help Tolkien in any way that might be useful, so as to make it easier for him to finish The Silmarillion.

This letter has been quoted and published in various forms:
  • Kilby's Tolkien & The Silmarillion, pp. 16-18
  • Letter 282 in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
  • a quote in SEVEN, Vol. 27, said to be from letter #282 that in fact contains another quote
  • a quote in The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology
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