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On [[12 March]] [[1927]], [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] wrote '''[[Letters not published in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"|a letter]] to Ronald Ashton''' (a former student at the [[University of Leeds]]).<ref>[[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]], "[http://www.hammondandscull.com/addenda/chronology.html Addenda and Corrigenda to ''The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide'' (2006) Vol. 1: Chronology]" at [http://www.hammondandscull.com/index.html HammondandScull.com] (accessed 20 May 2012)</ref> | |||
*'''Subject''': Tolkien offers to write a [[Wikipedia:Testimonial|testimonial]]. Comments on [[Oxford]], "''a centre of the motor industry: that fantastic lunacy''", and on the Universities at Leeds and Oxford. | *'''Subject''': Tolkien offers to write a [[Wikipedia:Testimonial|testimonial]]. Comments on [[Oxford]], "''a centre of the motor industry: that fantastic lunacy''", and on the Universities at Leeds and Oxford. | ||
*'''Publication:''' Quotes appear in ''[[Michael Silverman Catalogue 27|Michael Silverman, Catalogue Twenty-Seven]]''. | *'''Publication:''' Quotes appear in ''[[Michael Silverman Catalogue 27|Michael Silverman, Catalogue Twenty-Seven]]''. | ||
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{{blockquote|Neither of us were ever under the delusion that Oxford <nowiki>=</nowiki> Paradise: we know it too well. There are still lingering vestiges of civilisation in Oxford of course, a civilization <nowiki>[sic]</nowiki> that for historical reasons did not reach the North before it was overwhelmed by the new barbarism - but it is still part of modern England (and a centre of the motor industry: that fantastic lunacy).}} | |||
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{{blockquote|As for myself I find much that makes me regret Leeds very much. I doubt very much whether I should ever have torn myself away if I had been a single man, and able to disregard small differences in salary. The English School here is a battle-ground and there is small peace and little sense in it.<br/>I hope when you have dreed your unhappy weird in the Ed. Dept. — glorious product of half-baked pseudo-science — that you will get a job of a tolerable sort. Your qualifications are good enough anyhow. I hope you are [?well] and [?flourishing]. Please remember me kindly ??? ??? Mr. Ashton.<br/><br/>[?Sincerely]<br/><br/>JRR Tolkien}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Mr | *[[Letter to Mr Ashton]] | ||
{{References}} | {{References}} | ||
[[Category:Letters]] | [[Category:Letters|Ashton, Ronald]] | ||
Latest revision as of 23:12, 16 April 2017
On 12 March 1927, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to Ronald Ashton (a former student at the University of Leeds).[1]
- Subject: Tolkien offers to write a testimonial. Comments on Oxford, "a centre of the motor industry: that fantastic lunacy", and on the Universities at Leeds and Oxford.
- Publication: Quotes appear in Michael Silverman, Catalogue Twenty-Seven.
Transcription[edit | edit source]
[First page (in part):]
Neither of us were ever under the delusion that Oxford = Paradise: we know it too well. There are still lingering vestiges of civilisation in Oxford of course, a civilization [sic] that for historical reasons did not reach the North before it was overwhelmed by the new barbarism - but it is still part of modern England (and a centre of the motor industry: that fantastic lunacy).
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As for myself I find much that makes me regret Leeds very much. I doubt very much whether I should ever have torn myself away if I had been a single man, and able to disregard small differences in salary. The English School here is a battle-ground and there is small peace and little sense in it.
I hope when you have dreed your unhappy weird in the Ed. Dept. — glorious product of half-baked pseudo-science — that you will get a job of a tolerable sort. Your qualifications are good enough anyhow. I hope you are [?well] and [?flourishing]. Please remember me kindly ??? ??? Mr. Ashton.
[?Sincerely]
JRR Tolkien
See also[edit | edit source]
References
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, "Addenda and Corrigenda to The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2006) Vol. 1: Chronology" at HammondandScull.com (accessed 20 May 2012)
