Letters 
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Hammond and Scull in Chronology note that a postcard from Gilson is forwarded to Warwick from Exeter College though no other details are known currently.
While staying in Northgate, Warwick at the 'White House', Tolkien writes to his aunt May Incledon. No other details are currently available.
No information known on this letter.
No information known.
Tolkien writes to Edith. No information is known currently of its contents.
Tolkien writes to G.B. Smith. Little is currently know of this letter and it is dated via the remarks of Hammond/Scull.
Tolkien writes to R.W. Reynolds. From Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull's entry for '28 December 1916', Tolkien must have discussed G....
A letter from an unknown department to Tolkien at Thirtle Bridge Camp, Withernsea. No details are known currently.
A letter from an unknown department to Tolkien at "R.E. Signal Depot, Dunstable, Bedfordshire". No details are known currently.
A letter from an unknown department to Tolkien at "R.E. Signal Depot, Dunstable, Bedfordshire", redirected to Thirtle Bridge Camp, Withernsea....
Tolkien writes to Wiseman while he is at sea and the letter takes seven weeks to reach him. No details are known of the letter. Wiseman replies on 16 De...
Wiseman apologizes that he was unable to visit Tolkien in Oxford but he has now to return to HMS Monarch afterwhich he will take up his teaching post at...
No details of this letter are known except for the note in #TCGLetter1033 that says Tolkien now knows that Christopher had received the "fotobriefs...
No details from this letter are currently known.
Tolkien writes to Christopher. No details are currently known. This letter falls between two of Tolkien's 'FS' letters. FS16 (wrongly giv...
Tolkien writes to Christopher. Assumed to be FS 37. No details of the letter are known.
Tolkien noted this airgraph (FS 53) in his letter of 6 October but no other details are currently known.
Writing to a Mr. Burns. Tolkien refers to a Professor Kennedy's book of Anglo-Saxon verse and a Miss Kirchberger who had sought Tolkien's advi...
No details of this letter are known beyond the auction details. From Phillips, Oxford, from 20 October 1988: 2pp. typed letter and typed article from R....
A letter from Simonne d'Ardenne addressed to the 'Faculty' dated May 27, 1953, proposing J.R.R. Tolkien's candidacy for an honorary ...
Daphne Castell (later Cloke) interviewed Tolkien circa 1966. This letter, along with three others and an annotated transcript of her notes for the inter...
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
This letters contents are currently unknown.
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
No details of this letter are known.
No details of this letter are known.
Sent on the 13th April as a separate note along with #TCGLetter235, Tolkien apologises for the slow nature of his reply. A complete transcript along wit...
This letter, held at the Marquette archives from Rayner Unwin to the archives of The J.R.R. Tolkien Collection concerned corrections for the Return of t...
Noted at Archives Hub, and held at the Oxfordshire History Centre, is held correspondence between the buidling contractor Symm and Company and J.R.R. To...
A 'melancholy letter' expressing various complaints.
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
In a footnote in Unfinished Tales, Christopher Tolkien quotes from this otherwise unknown letter discussing confusion around the numbering of Númenorea...
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Bodleian and a copy at the Wade.
No details of this letter are known.
No details of this letter are known.
No details of this letter are known.
No details of this letter are currently known but see #TCGLetter575 for Tolkien's reply.
Wollheim tells Scott that he had offered Tolkien a settlement previously, this appears to be an outright lie, one which Tolkien figured out a few weeks ...
No details of this letter are known, but it is almost certainly in regard to the ACE Books edition of The Lord of the Rings. A copy of this letter is he...
No details are currently known from this letter. A copy of this letter is held at the Wade.
No details are currently known from this letter.
Tolkien sends his thanks to Gibb for sending a copy of the book Light on C.S. Lewis and notes that it says more about the contributors than of Lewis him...
This contents of the letter are unknown.
No details are currently known from this letter.
No details are currently known from this letter.
No details of this letter are known.
No details of this letter are known.
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
No details of this letter are known but Huttar had visited Tolkien on this day (see reference below). The letter is held at the Wade.
No details are known about this letter. It is held at the Wade.
No details are currently known from this letter.
No details of this letter are known. A copy is held at the Wade.
No details of this letter are currently known. It is held at the Marquette archives along with a complete transcript.
From Marquette: "Speech by the Public Orator," speech given at the presentation of an honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters to J. R. R. Tolkien...
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(59 letters match)1913
Early October 1913
Rob Gilson to J.R.R. Tolkien
#1151
Hammond and Scull in Chronology note that a postcard from Gilson is forwarded to Warwick from Exeter College though no other details are known currently.
1914
23 August 1914
J.R.R. Tolkien to May Incledon
#1192
While staying in Northgate, Warwick at the 'White House', Tolkien writes to his aunt May Incledon. No other details are currently available.
1915
4 April 1915
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Wiseman
#1215
No information known on this letter.
6 April 1915
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Wiseman
#1217
No information known.
25 November 1915
J.R.R. Tolkien to Edith Bratt
#1299
Tolkien writes to Edith. No information is known currently of its contents.
1916
c. 1 August 1916
J.R.R. Tolkien to G.B. Smith
#1549
Tolkien writes to G.B. Smith. Little is currently know of this letter and it is dated via the remarks of Hammond/Scull.
c. 22 December 1916
J.R.R. Tolkien to R.W. Reynolds
#1575
Tolkien writes to R.W. Reynolds. From Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull's entry for '28 December 1916', Tolkien must have discussed G....
1917
12 July 1917
?Unknown Army Department to J.R.R. Tolkien
#1591
A letter from an unknown department to Tolkien at Thirtle Bridge Camp, Withernsea. No details are known currently.
14 July 1917
?Unknown Army Department to J.R.R. Tolkien
#1590
A letter from an unknown department to Tolkien at "R.E. Signal Depot, Dunstable, Bedfordshire". No details are known currently.
21 July 1917
?Unknown Army Department to J.R.R. Tolkien
#1592
A letter from an unknown department to Tolkien at "R.E. Signal Depot, Dunstable, Bedfordshire", redirected to Thirtle Bridge Camp, Withernsea....
1918
c. 28 October 1918
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Wiseman
#1604
Tolkien writes to Wiseman while he is at sea and the letter takes seven weeks to reach him. No details are known of the letter. Wiseman replies on 16 De...
27 December 1918
Christopher Wiseman to J.R.R. Tolkien
#1605
Wiseman apologizes that he was unable to visit Tolkien in Oxford but he has now to return to HMS Monarch afterwhich he will take up his teaching post at...
1944
Before March 1944
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien
#1523
No details of this letter are known except for the note in #TCGLetter1033 that says Tolkien now knows that Christopher had received the "fotobriefs...
24 March 1944 (posted)
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien
#1521
No details from this letter are currently known.
16 or 17 April 1944
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien
#2401
Tolkien writes to Christopher. No details are currently known. This letter falls between two of Tolkien's 'FS' letters. FS16 (wrongly giv...
17 July 1944
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien
#2408
Tolkien writes to Christopher. Assumed to be FS 37. No details of the letter are known.
30 September - 6 October 1944
J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien
#1524
Tolkien noted this airgraph (FS 53) in his letter of 6 October but no other details are currently known.
1952
15 November 1952
J.R.R. Tolkien to Mr Burns
#1062
Writing to a Mr. Burns. Tolkien refers to a Professor Kennedy's book of Anglo-Saxon verse and a Miss Kirchberger who had sought Tolkien's advi...
1953
1953
R.M. Wilson to J.R.R. Tolkien
#1357
No details of this letter are known beyond the auction details. From Phillips, Oxford, from 20 October 1988: 2pp. typed letter and typed article from R....
27 May 1953
Simonne d'Ardenne to The Faculty, Liege University
#83
A letter from Simonne d'Ardenne addressed to the 'Faculty' dated May 27, 1953, proposing J.R.R. Tolkien's candidacy for an honorary ...
1954
28 September 1954
J.R.R. Tolkien to Daphne Castell
#1046
Daphne Castell (later Cloke) interviewed Tolkien circa 1966. This letter, along with three others and an annotated transcript of her notes for the inter...
13 October 1954
J.R.R. Tolkien to Mr. Cheesman
#921
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
1955
28 January 1955
J.R.R. Tolkien to Professor Dodds
#1078
This letters contents are currently unknown.
27 September 1955
J.R.R. Tolkien to Martin C. Stone
#958
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
1956
7 March 1956
William Galbraith to J.R.R. Tolkien
#922
No details of this letter are known.
15 March 1956
J.R.R. Tolkien to Martin C. Stone
#959
No details of this letter are known.
12-13 April 1956
J.R.R. Tolkien to William Galbraith
#236
Sent on the 13th April as a separate note along with #TCGLetter235, Tolkien apologises for the slow nature of his reply. A complete transcript along wit...
1958
Unknown but no earlier than 1958
Rayner Unwin to Marquette University
#1098
This letter, held at the Marquette archives from Rayner Unwin to the archives of The J.R.R. Tolkien Collection concerned corrections for the Return of t...
11 October 1958 - 26 February 1959
J.R.R. Tolkien to Symm and Company
#1660
Noted at Archives Hub, and held at the Oxfordshire History Centre, is held correspondence between the buidling contractor Symm and Company and J.R.R. To...
1959
5 July 1959
J.R.R. Tolkien to Patricia Kirke
#1066
A 'melancholy letter' expressing various complaints.
1963
April 1963
J.R.R. Tolkien to Mr. Charles Huttar
#932
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
1964
1964
J.R.R. Tolkien to A correspondent
#1689
In a footnote in Unfinished Tales, Christopher Tolkien quotes from this otherwise unknown letter discussing confusion around the numbering of Númenorea...
17 January 1964
J.R.R. Tolkien to Jocelyn Gibb
#923
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Bodleian and a copy at the Wade.
22 January 1964
Jocelyn Gibb to J.R.R. Tolkien
#924
No details of this letter are known.
24 January 1964
J.R.R. Tolkien to Jocelyn Gibb
#925
No details of this letter are known.
3 December 1964
Jocelyn Gibb to J.R.R. Tolkien
#927
No details of this letter are known.
1965
17 January 1965
Joan O. Falconer to J.R.R. Tolkien
#897
No details of this letter are currently known but see #TCGLetter575 for Tolkien's reply.
2 July 1965
Donald A. Wollheim to Nan C. Scott
#944
Wollheim tells Scott that he had offered Tolkien a settlement previously, this appears to be an outright lie, one which Tolkien figured out a few weeks ...
15 July 1965
Lovell Thompson to Nan C. Scott
#945
No details of this letter are known, but it is almost certainly in regard to the ACE Books edition of The Lord of the Rings. A copy of this letter is he...
14 September 1965
Rayner Unwin to Nan C. Scott
#946
No details are currently known from this letter. A copy of this letter is held at the Wade.
25 October 1965
J.R.R. Tolkien to Nan C. Scott
#947
No details are currently known from this letter.
28 October 1965
J.R.R. Tolkien to Jocelyn Gibb
#929
Tolkien sends his thanks to Gibb for sending a copy of the book Light on C.S. Lewis and notes that it says more about the contributors than of Lewis him...
1 December 1965
J.R.R. Tolkien to David Charles Rose
#942
This contents of the letter are unknown.
1966
28 November 1966
J.R.R. Tolkien to Nan C. Scott
#953
No details are currently known from this letter.
15 December 1966
J.R.R. Tolkien to Nan C. Scott
#954
No details are currently known from this letter.
1967
2 January 1967
J.R.R. Tolkien to Charles Huttar
#933
No details of this letter are known.
1 February 1967
J.R.R. Tolkien to Charles Huttar
#934
No details of this letter are known.
21 June 1967
J.R.R. Tolkien to Charles Huttar
#935
No details of this letter are known. It is held at the Wade.
4 August 1967
J.R.R. Tolkien to Charles Huttar
#936
No details of this letter are known but Huttar had visited Tolkien on this day (see reference below). The letter is held at the Wade.
9 August 1967
J.R.R. Tolkien to Charles Huttar
#937
No details are known about this letter. It is held at the Wade.
1968
29 January 1968
J.R.R. Tolkien to Nan C. Scott
#955
No details are currently known from this letter.
9 August 1968?
J.R.R. Tolkien to Robert Havard
#931
No details of this letter are known. A copy is held at the Wade.
15 October 1968
J.R.R. Tolkien to Jared C. Lobdell
#1096
No details of this letter are currently known. It is held at the Marquette archives along with a complete transcript.
1972
8 June 1972
Public Orator to Oxford University
#1099
From Marquette: "Speech by the Public Orator," speech given at the presentation of an honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters to J. R. R. Tolkien...
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