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TCG Letter #66

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ronald Ashton

Date

12 March 1927

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Transcript

Complete

Tolkien offers to write a testimonial for Ashton. He remarks that Oxford is very focused on the motor trade.

Notes

Ronald Ashton was a former student at Leeds University. Quotes appear in Michael Silverman, Catalogue Twenty-Seven, item 112.

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