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Discuss Letter #402 (J.R.R. Tolkien to Naomi Mitchison • 25 September 1954)

21 Nov
2023/11/21 3:25:01 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Letter link: Letter #402 (J.R.R. Tolkien to Naomi Mitchison • 25 September 1954)

Photos of the whole letter is now available at https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/alp ... kien-1892-1973-186/204970

I found a tiny typo in Carpenter's transcription. "beyond the sea" (p198 in 1981 Letters) should be "beyond the Sea". Actually, capitalized "Sea" appeared twice later in the same letter.

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Urulókë

21 Nov
2023/11/21 3:36:38 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Thanks! Love being able to see these important hand-written letters, even though I will never be able to afford to own one.

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Aelfwine

21 Nov
2023/11/21 4:08:45 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

FWIW, I note that the lot description gives the date of the letter as "25 November 1954", but of course it is actually dated 25 September 1954.

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Trotter

21 Nov (edited)
2023/11/21 8:22:43 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

The text in the published version οἰκουμέη should be οἰκουμένη (world)

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zionius

21 Nov (edited)
2023/11/21 8:43:55 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Trotter wrote:
The text in the published version οἰκουμέη should be οἰκουμένη (world)

As noted in my errata, the kindle edition has this typo too. Now that you mentioned it also appears in the paper edition, I suspect the rest 3 scores of typos I found in the kindle version might well appear in the paper edition too...

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onthetrail
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21 Nov
2023/11/21 9:29:32 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

zionius wrote:
Letter link: Letter #402 (J.R.R. Tolkien to Naomi Mitchison • 25 September 1954)

Photos of the whole letter is now available at https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/alp ... kien-1892-1973-186/204970

I found a tiny typo in Carpenter's transcription. "beyond the sea" (p198 in 1981 Letters) should be "beyond the Sea". Actually, capitalized "Sea" appeared twice later in the same letter.

Thanks zionius, it's so rare that we are able to see these published letters in their original form that when one comes up it feels like Christmas.

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