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Thanks for sharing, Trotter.

I've known of this letter for some time now. Diana Glyer and I (thanks to the kindness of the Tolkien estate) were allowed to quote from this letter in our chapter in Jason Fisher's essay collection Tolkien and the Study of his Sources:

https://books.google.com/books?id=98VQ ... like%20a%20hobbit&f=false

It is always nice to see a little known letter of Tolkien's brought to the attention of others.

Trotter, my apologies. I totally missed this and saw it myself just this evening so posted the info to W&C blog. But obviously as you posted it here they will know about it already. Did not mean to try and steal your fine internet sleuthing.