TCG Letter #724

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Roger Verhulst

Date

9 March 1966

Type

Typed Letter Signed

Transcript

Complete

Tolkien writes about the publication of a proposed book about him by W.H. Auden.

Notes

Quotes from this letter appears in Kilby's Tolkien & The Silmarillion, p. 71 and p. 73.

This letter comes shortly after Tolkien had written to W.H. Auden^{Carpenter #284: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to W.H. Auden • 23 February 1966 (#657)[1]} and he copies a paragraph from that letter into this. Tolkien is not happy with any proposed book on him from Auden, as can be read in the published letter Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Patricia Kirke • 24 December 1956 (#284)

¹ Carpenter #284: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to W.H. Auden • 23 February 1966 (#657) ↩

Tags

Archive holdings

C. S. Lewis

Charles Williams

The Inklings

W. H. Auden

Wade Center Archives

Related Letters

Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Roger Verhulst • 3 May 1966 (#745)

Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Roger Verhulst • 4 December 1967 (#746)

Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Roger Verhulst • 3 May 1966 (#1835)

Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Roger Verhulst • 8 April 1966 (#744)

Letter from Roger Verhulst to J.R.R. Tolkien • 2 March 1966 (#1834)

Carpenter #284: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to W.H. Auden • 23 February 1966 (#657)

References

Christies Sale 28 November 2011 Lot 357

Wade Center collection.

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), pp. 513-14 (see paragraph which begins, "I regret very much to hear that you have contracted to write a book about me."

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 692

Tolkien & The Silmarillion, p.71 and p.73

J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, Dii34, p. 358

Christies, 19 June 202, sold for GBP 2,125, Lot 251

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