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TCG Letter #6 / Carpenter Letter #6


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
E. M. Wright
Date
13 February 1923
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Complete
Tolkien writes to the wife of Joseph Wright thanking her for sending him her article about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and some kind comments about his Middle-English Vocabulary work.
Notes
Joseph Wright was the Editor of the English Dialect Dictionary whom Tolkien had studied philology with at Oxford.
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References
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 11
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 7-8
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 128 (entry for 'Christmas 1922'), p. 129
J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, A1 (Quoted in), p. 3; Di1, p. 350
Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 19-20
We note our thanks to Catherine McIlwaine for providing the libraries shelfmark for this letter.
The Ring of Words, p. 3, 36
Bodleian Library MS. Eng. lett. d. 347, fol. 1


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