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TCG Letter #630 / Carpenter Letter #256

From

J.R.R. Tolkien

Colin Bailey

Date

13 May 1964

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Transcript

Partial

An account of Tolkien’s unfinished story ‘The New Shadow’.

Notes

Hammond and Scull's Chronology mentions that this letter was started on May 13, but set aside and continued on June 6.

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Carpenter #338: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Fr. Douglas Carter • ?6 June 1972 (#432)

References

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 344

Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 493

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology (2017), p. 651 (entry for 13 May) , p. 652 (entry for 6 June)

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded ed. (HarperCollins, UK), p. 483

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J.R.R. Tolkien A Descriptive Bibliography, Di1, p. 350

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