Letter 1

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 1
Recipient	Edith Bratt
Date	October 1914
Subject(s)	The Story of Kullervo

Letter 1 is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Summary

Tolkien compliments Edith for her splendid letters while calling himself a "pig" for not writing more often. He discusses his time training at the University Officer's Training Corps while attending his final year as an undergraduate at Oxford. He mentions a story he is working on, The Story of Kullervo.