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TCG Letter #833

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Help the Aged Housing Association (Tolkien's Desk)

Date

27 July 1972

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Transcript

Complete

Tolkien sells his desk to support a UK Charity Help The Aged.

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Charity

Desk

Help the Aged

Marquette Archives

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The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

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Marquette archive details., See 7/1/9

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 804

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Tolkien Gateway entry.

Sotheby's Fine English and Continental Furniture Bronzes, Textiles and Works of Art 1825-1930 and French Animalier Bronzes.

Great Tales of Middle-earth Box Set: The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin

On This Day

Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to The New York Times Book Review • 5 June 1955 (#1016)

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