30 Dec, 2016
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Dear Sirs,
I am a french collector of rare letters, I own a four pages original manuscript letter of Tolkien I am ok to sell to a true Tolkien collector.
My email :
[email protected]The letter is in Paris, France.
Best
Mathias Meyer
Images at
Letter to Doris Elizabeth Sykes (July 1956)
24 Jun, 2020
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20k plus buyer's fees isn't a bit pricey for a three pages letter?

10 Oct, 2020
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10 Oct, 2020
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quote:
''I have been neglectful, I fear, but I am a dreadfully married man, having a v. full-time job...''
Harried. ''I am a dreadfully _harried_ man...''

10 Oct, 2020
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garm wrote:
quote:
''I have been neglectful, I fear, but I am a dreadfully married man, having a v. full-time job...''
Harried. ''I am a dreadfully _harried_ man...''

That's hilarious. ?
10 Oct, 2020
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Trotter wrote:
Tolkien is still a dreadfully married man on the website.
Oh dear...
I noticed another misleading transcription, too. They have 'the best way of doing hobbits is to make them absolutely ordinary human beings (except for a neat goatee or buskin of hair)', which made me do a huge double take at the word
goatee. But it looks to me like the letter actually reads 'except for a neat gaiter or buskin of hair', i.e. on their lower legs/ankles and feet.