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*[[Letter to Charles Furth (25 April 1937)|25 April 1937, to Charles Furth]]
*[[Letter to Charles Furth (25 April 1937)|25 April 1937, to Charles Furth]]
*[[Letter to Lionel Salt| 31 May 1937, to Lionel Salt]]
*[[Letter to George Allen and Unwin|7 September 1937, to George Allen & Unwin]]
*[[Letter to George Allen and Unwin|7 September 1937, to George Allen & Unwin]]
*[[Letter to Simonne d'Ardenne (21 September 1937)|21 September 1937, to Simonne d'Ardenne]]
*[[Letter to Simonne d'Ardenne (21 September 1937)|21 September 1937, to Simonne d'Ardenne]]
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*[[Letter to David Masson (1955)|1955, to David Masson]]
*[[Letter to David Masson (1955)|1955, to David Masson]]
*1955, to August Closs (two letters)<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/31/5731.htm|articlename=London University: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies: Closs/Priebsch Family Papers|dated=|website=[http://www.aim25.ac.uk/index.stm Archives in London and the M25 area]|accessed=19 July 2012}}</ref>
*[[Letter to August Closs|1955, to August Closs]] (two letters)<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/31/5731.htm|articlename=London University: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies: Closs/Priebsch Family Papers|dated=|website=[http://www.aim25.ac.uk/index.stm Archives in London and the M25 area]|accessed=19 July 2012}}</ref>
*[[Letter to G.E. Selby (1955/6)|c. 1955/6, to G.E. Selby]]
*[[Letter to G.E. Selby (1955/6)|c. 1955/6, to G.E. Selby]]
*[[Letter to Derrick Parnum|2 March 1955, to Mr Derrick Parnum]]
*[[Letter to Derrick Parnum|2 March 1955, to Mr Derrick Parnum]]
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*[[Letter to Michael George Tolkien (10 January 1958)|10 January 1958, to Michael George Tolkien]]
*[[Letter to Michael George Tolkien (10 January 1958)|10 January 1958, to Michael George Tolkien]]
*[[Letter to Wordsworth (17 February 1958)| 17 February 1958, to Wordsworth]]
*[[Letter to Wordsworth (17 February 1958)| 17 February 1958, to Wordsworth]]
*[[Letter to Voorhoeve & Dietrich (18 March 1958)|18 March 1958, to  Voorhoeve & Dietrich]]
*[[Letter to Peter Alford (2 April 1958)|2 April 1958, to Peter Alford]]
*[[Letter to Peter Alford (2 April 1958)|2 April 1958, to Peter Alford]]
*[[Letter to Cees Ouboter|2 April 1958, to Cees Ouboter]]
*[[Letter to Cees Ouboter|2 April 1958, to Cees Ouboter]]
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*[[Letter to Nan C. Scott (30 May 1966)|30 May 1966, to Nan C. Scott]]  
*[[Letter to Nan C. Scott (30 May 1966)|30 May 1966, to Nan C. Scott]]  
*[[Letter to Royston F. Porthouse|1 June 1966, to Royston F. Porthouse]]
*[[Letter to Royston F. Porthouse|1 June 1966, to Royston F. Porthouse]]
*[[Letter to Mr. Wordsworth (6 June 1966)|6 June 1966, to Mr. Wordsworth]]
*[[Letter to Nan C. Scott (18 July 1966)|18 July 1966, to Nan C. Scott]]  
*[[Letter to Nan C. Scott (18 July 1966)|18 July 1966, to Nan C. Scott]]  
*[[Letter to Michael George Tolkien (29 July 1966)|29 July 1966, to Michael George Tolkien]] (see also [[Letter 289]])
*[[Letter to Michael George Tolkien (29 July 1966)|29 July 1966, to Michael George Tolkien]] (see also [[Letter 289]])
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*[[Letter to "My dear Ladies"|10 June 1971, to "My dear Ladies"]]
*[[Letter to "My dear Ladies"|10 June 1971, to "My dear Ladies"]]
*[[Letter to Brian Miller|21 June 1971, to Brian Miller]]
*[[Letter to Brian Miller|21 June 1971, to Brian Miller]]
*[[Letter to Talbot D'Alessandro|17 July 1971, to Talbot D'Alessandro]]
*[[Letter to Joy Hill (28 October 1971)|28 October 1971, to Joy Hill]]
*[[Letter to Joy Hill (28 October 1971)|28 October 1971, to Joy Hill]]
*[[Letter to  Fay Darrington (16 November 1971)|16 November 1971, to Fay Darrington]]
*[[Letter to  Fay Darrington (16 November 1971)|16 November 1971, to Fay Darrington]]
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*[[Letter 336|23 May 1972, to Sir Patrick Browne]] (letter 336)
*[[Letter 336|23 May 1972, to Sir Patrick Browne]] (letter 336)
*[[Letter to Robert Burchfield (11 June 1972)|11 June 1972, to Robert Burchfield]]
*[[Letter to Robert Burchfield (11 June 1972)|11 June 1972, to Robert Burchfield]]
*[[Letter to Mr. Wordsworth (26 September 1972)|26 September 1972, to Mr. Wordsworth]]
*[[Letter to Rayner Unwin (12 October 1972)|12 October 1972, to Rayner Unwin]]
*[[Letter to Rayner Unwin (12 October 1972)|12 October 1972, to Rayner Unwin]]
*[[Letter to Edmund R. Meskys (23 November 1972)|23 November 1972, to Edmund R. Meskys]]
*[[Letter to Edmund R. Meskys (23 November 1972)|23 November 1972, to Edmund R. Meskys]]
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*[[Letter to Dr. Denis Tolhurst|20 April 1973, to Dr. Denis Tolhurst]]
*[[Letter to Dr. Denis Tolhurst|20 April 1973, to Dr. Denis Tolhurst]]
*[[Letter to John Higgins|20 April 1973, to John Higgins]]
*[[Letter to John Higgins|20 April 1973, to John Higgins]]
*[[Letter to Mr. Wordsworth (20 May 1973)|20 May 1973, to Mr. Wordsworth]]
*[[Letter to Philip Brown|30 May 1973, to Philip Brown]]
*[[Letter to Philip Brown|30 May 1973, to Philip Brown]]
*[[Letter to James A.H. Murray|5 June 1973, to James A.H. Murray]]
*[[Letter to James A.H. Murray|5 June 1973, to James A.H. Murray]]
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*[[Letter to Christopher Tolkien|19?? to Christopher Tolkien]]
*[[Letter to Christopher Tolkien|19?? to Christopher Tolkien]]
*19?? to an unknown reader (draft; topic: [[Sindarin]] and [[Quenya]])<ref>{{PE|17}}, p. 127</ref>
*19?? to an unknown reader (draft; topic: [[Sindarin]] and [[Quenya]])<ref>{{PE|17}}, p. 127</ref>
*[[Letter to Leslie Underwood|19?? to Leslie Underwood]]


==Unexposed collections and rumours==
==Unexposed collections and rumours==

Revision as of 01:17, 18 August 2015

The name Letters refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Letters (disambiguation).

The The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien is a large collection of letters of Tolkien, but it is far from complete. Below are some letters that did not make it into the collection, or only partially.

Individual letters

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1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

Unknown year

Unexposed collections and rumours

Correspondence between Tolkien and R.W. Burchfield

During the years 1953-72, Tolkien corresponded with R.W. Burchfield. The collection of letters is kept at the Bodleian Library:[4]

Correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien and R.W. Burchfield, 1953-72. / Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7284, fols. 1-16. / Extent: 16 leaves. / Comprises ten manuscript, and typescript letters, and one copy letter from Tolkien to Burchfield, relating to Burchfield's attendance at tutorials, his search for housing in Oxford, his application for funding for his research, his search for an academic post, his congratulations on the publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, an extension for his work on 'Ormulum', and Tolkien's edition of Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle, and one letter from Burchfield to Tolkien relating to the printing of Ancrene Wisse. Also a description of the letters by Elizabeth Burchfield, widow of R.W. Burchfield. / Acquisition: Bequest of R.W. Burchfield, per Elizabeth Burchfield, Dec. 2004.

Correspondence between Tolkien and Pablo Martínez del Río

José Manuel Ferrández Bru has noted that a collection of Tolkien's letters to Pablo Martínez del Río, whose younger cousins Tolkien took to vacation in Paris in 1913, has been donated to the Centro de Estudios de Historia de México of Condumex. As of 2011, Ferrández Bru wrote that Tolkien's letters unfortunately "are mixed with huge numbers of other documents" and that it will take years before they have been catalogued and available for research.[5]

Correspondence between Tolkien and Sterling E. Lanier

In an article in Locus #149 (1973), the science fiction author Sterling E. Lanier mentions his correspondence with Tolkien, consisting of a "dozen or so" letters. John D. Rateliff has provided the following quote from Lanier's article:[6]

His last great legacy to the world, the Silmarillion, has been saved. He wrote me years ago, that it was done in verse! He seemed puzzled in a mild way, that at the time, no publisher seemed interested in it. I recall asking what he was doing for a comic or light element, since no Hobbits existed this early. He agreed this was a problem, but felt it could be solved. I can't wait."

Letters to The Society

A collection of Tolkien's letters to The Society is kept at the Bodleian Library.[7]

Letters to Simonne d'Ardenne

John and Priscilla Tolkien mention briefly in The Tolkien Family Album that Simonne d'Ardenne: "was especially close to Priscilla, up until her death in 1986. She entrusted to Priscilla a great bundle of letters she had received from J.R.R.T. over a period of forty years." (p.68). This large collection of letters seems never to have reached a publication.

Letters to the Hogans

In the article "Tolkien's time in 'Erin'" (in anticipation of the publication of the Irish translation of The Hobbit), published in The Irish Times on 17 March 2012, Dr. Tom Hogan mentions that Tolkien:

stayed many times in our house on visits to Ireland. These visits started in the 1950s. He came to Ireland for a couple of weeks each year acting as an external examiner of English in UCD. He worked alongside my late father Jeremiah who was professor of English there at the time. A number of letters from Tolkien to us are in my possession.

No dates of individual letters are provided, but Hogan quotes from several letters in the article.[8]

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (expanded edition)

On February 2nd, 2004, TheOneRing.net featured an article on the Tolkien Convention in Brussels. An expanded edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien was promised:

"...on the occasion of TFY's presentation on January 19, Marco Respinti and Oronzo Cilli, in the presence of Elisabetta Sgarbi (Editorial Director of Bompiani), spoke of the possibility of a revision of the Italian edition of Tolkien's letters, gathered by his son Christopher and his official biographer, Humprey Carpenter. Bompiani decided to publish a new edition, revised and enlarged, and the Italian Tolkien Society is in contant with an english publisher to have an international version of the book. The volume will be introduced by an essay of Priscilla Tolkien and it will boast contributions by Tolkien experts as Mike Foster, Christopher Garbowski, Brian Rosebury, Andrew McMurry, Paolo Paron, Gianfranco de Turris, Adolfo Morganti, Marco Respinti, Oronzo Cilli, Stefano Giuliano, Jimmy Chavez, Jeroen Van Den Berg, David Beatene and many others. In fact Cilli has managed to obtain from the British Public Record Office the rights to the publication of some documents regarding Tolkien's experience in the First World War. The new edition might include these new documents (never published before in any book) and a short essay on Tolkien and the war."

The Tea Towel Letter

The web site Tolkien Collector's Guide has an article (on a rare tea towel) with a reference from a supposedly unpublished letter. The background is that George Allen and Unwin in 1971 commissioned the towel, featuring a map by Pauline Baynes, on the occasion of a celebration. The author of the article says: "[...] it is clear Tolkien was there, since I read in an (unpublished) letter he himself had received such a teatowel at the 'party' or 'meeting' and was very happy with it."[9]

Wheelbarrows at Dawn

Similarly to what was done in the Black & White Ogre Country: The Lost Tales of Hilary Tolkien, glimpses of the correspondence between J.R.R. Tolkien and his brother Hilary were supposed to be published in late 2010 in Wheelbarrows at Dawn: Memories of Hilary Tolkien. However, the publication of the latter book was cancelled, and the letters remain unpublished (as of November 2010).

In early 2015, Hilary Tolkien's "archive of family letters, family photographs & ephemera" was put up for sale, "including 15 unseen long letters by JRR Tolkien himself".[10]

Hoaxes

The Letters, Part II

Throughout the early issues of Vinyar Tengwar, there was reference to "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien part II", but it was revealed to be a joke.[source?]

Dr. Higgins and possible eBay frauds

The forum of the website Tolkien Collector's Guide contains discussions (in which Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull have taken part) on a circulation on eBay of fraudulent Tolkien letters. Among these are said to be letters adressed to a "Dr. Higgins". Many of these contested letters are typewritten, with a signature by J.R.R. Tolkien in blue ink. The forger, Alan Formhals, was found guilty at Southampton Crown Court in 2012.[11][12]

See also

External links

References

  1. "London University: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies: Closs/Priebsch Family Papers", Archives in London and the M25 area (accessed 19 July 2012)
  2. J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 40
  3. J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 127
  4. "Guard-book of miscellaneous items, 19th-20th cent.", Bodleian.ox.ac.uk (accessed 19 March 2012)
  5. José Manuel Ferrández Bru, "'Wingless fluttering'": Some Personal Connections in Tolkien's Formative Years", in ’Tolkien Studies, Vol. VIII (eds. Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger), pp. 63-4 (note 21)
  6. John D. Rateliff, "The New Arrivals (2nd of 2)" dated 8 July 2012, Sacnoth's Scriptorium (accessed 9 July 2012)
  7. "Catalogue of papers of The Society, University of Oxford", Bodleian Library (accessed 16 January 2012)
  8. Tom Hogan, "Tolkien's time in 'Erin'" dated 17 March 2012, IrishTimes.com (accessed 19 March 2012)
  9. "Tea Towel" dated 17 September 2008, Tolkien Collector's Guide (accessed 14 June 2013)
  10. "The Wonders of..." dated 27 January 2015, Tolkien Collector's Guide (accessed 30 January 2015)
  11. Another Tolkien eBay Letter at TolkienGuide.com (accessed 29 November 2011)
  12. Stephanie Linning, "Fraudster forged signatures of Winston Churchill, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell and Pablo Picasso to scam more than £33,000 out of collectors" dated 9 September 2014, Mail Online (accessed 25 June 2015)