Letter to Miss Kilbride

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On 24 December 1938, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to Miss Kilbride (Katherine or Kitty), a friend and former student.^[1]

Subject: Personal greetings. News of the hardships suffered that year and of his family, and complaining abut the state of Oxford in the age of Morris Motors.^[2]
Description: Postcard (reproducing in colours Josef Madlener's Heilige Familie), one page, closely written in a minute hand.^[2]
Publication: A reproduction of and quotes from the letter appeared in the auction catalogue Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs 12 June 2012.

External link

Pictures of the postcard on TolkienLibrary.com

References

↑ "Tolkien Handwritten Postcard For Auction - Bonhams 12 June 2012". Tolkien Collector's Guide. Retrieved 2 June 2012
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Auction 20137: Lot 150: Tolkien, J.R.R.". Bonhams.com. Retrieved 2 June 2012

[1] "Tolkien Handwritten Postcard For Auction - Bonhams 12 June 2012". Tolkien Collector's Guide. Retrieved 2 June 2012

[Bonhams-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Auction 20137: Lot 150: Tolkien, J.R.R.". Bonhams.com. Retrieved 2 June 2012

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