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TCG Letter #69
From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Dr. Henry Bradley
Date
22 June 1922
Type
Autograph Note Signed
Transcript
Complete
Tolkien sends a postcard to Henry Bradley. Tolkien had worked with Bradley on the Oxford English Dictionary. He hopes Bradley has recovered from his recent illness. Tolkien also includes a riddle in Old English verse based on a nursery rhyme, ‘Enigma Saxonicum nuper “inventum”’.A version of the riddle was published in A Northern Venture with minor differences, mainly in punctuation. Later the riddles were both reprinted in The Annotated Hobbit (rev. and expanded edn. 2002), pp. 124–5.[1] Translated as 'a recently found Saxon riddle' in The Ring of Words.[2]
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