2025-09-14 15:33 PM BST

Lot 308

Description
Tolkien (J.R.R.) Typed letter signed ("J.R.R. Tolkien") to Mr Nicholas Salaman, Esq

Reading "Thank you for your invitation. I am afraid the project that you describe is not really in my line. In any case I am too busy with my own work, and shall be for a long while, to engage in any project of this sort", one page, a few pin holes to the upper portion of the page, light creasing, 8vo, 76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford, 23 March 1967.

Dimensions:6.8 x 5.3"/ 17.5 x 13.5cm

Provenance:

The collection of Nicholas Salaman, Esq. , who had asked Tolkien to give a talk on The Magic of Power at a seminar on the same subject at J. Walter Thompson.

Letter link: Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Nicholas Salaman • 23 March 1967 (#2592)

Estimate GBP 1,500-2,000
Sold for GBP 3,870 including fees

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