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TCG Letter #75


From
J.R.R. Tolkien
To
Kenneth Sisam
Date
16 March 1933
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Transcript
Complete
Tolkien confirms that he will visit Boar's Hill on the Saturday. Tolkien is pleased as he was furnished with a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary by someone. Tolkien asks about qualifying for a supplement but that Sisam can explain on Saturday.

Notes
He has been reading N.R. Ker's thesis,A Study of the Additions and Alterations in MSS Bodley 340 and 342. Tolkien and Sisam will examine this viva voca on 21 March at the Examining School.[1] which he has found hard going.

The letter was published in The Ring of Words (Oxford University Press, 2006) by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner.
1 A Study of the Additions and Alterations in MSS Bodley 340 and 342. Tolkien and Sisam will examine this viva voca on 21 March at the Examining School. ↩
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References
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 179
The Ring of Words, p. 39, 193, 194 (reproduction of letter)


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