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*'''Authenticity''': High | *'''Authenticity''': High | ||
*'''Publication:''' A description of the letter was included in ''[[Michael Silverman Catalogue 23]]''. | *'''Publication:''' A description of the letter was included in ''[[Michael Silverman Catalogue 23]]''. | ||
*'''Description:''' Tolkien comments on conditions in South Africa, and gives Levinson news of various appointments in [[Oxford]], including [[Nevill Coghill]] as the Merton Professor of English Literature, and [[Elaine Griffiths]] as a Lecturer. Tolkien was shocked by the death of [[wikipedia:Roy Campbell (poet)|Roy Campbell]] but relieved by the general tone of his obituaries. He is sorry "''to be pinned down to beer, especially in quantity. On the whole it goes down better with tobacco than other drinks; but I have never been a gargantuan swiller of it''".<ref>[[Wayne G. Hammond]] | *'''Description:''' Tolkien comments on conditions in South Africa, and gives Levinson news of various appointments in [[Oxford]], including [[Nevill Coghill]] as the Merton Professor of English Literature, and [[Elaine Griffiths]] as a Lecturer. Tolkien was shocked by the death of [[wikipedia:Roy Campbell (poet)|Roy Campbell]] but relieved by the general tone of his obituaries. He is sorry "''to be pinned down to beer, especially in quantity. On the whole it goes down better with tobacco than other drinks; but I have never been a gargantuan swiller of it''".<ref>[[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]], [http://mysite.verizon.net/wghammond/addenda/chronology.html Addenda and Corrigenda to ''The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide'' (2006) Vol. 1: Chronology] (accessed 28 May 2011)</ref> | ||
==See also== | |||
*[[Deirdre Levinson 20 December 1956]] | |||
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Revision as of 22:24, 27 May 2011
Deirdre Levinson 26 June 1957 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Deirdre Levinson (his former student, who at this time was in South Africa), written on 26 June 1957.
- Authenticity: High
- Publication: A description of the letter was included in Michael Silverman Catalogue 23.
- Description: Tolkien comments on conditions in South Africa, and gives Levinson news of various appointments in Oxford, including Nevill Coghill as the Merton Professor of English Literature, and Elaine Griffiths as a Lecturer. Tolkien was shocked by the death of Roy Campbell but relieved by the general tone of his obituaries. He is sorry "to be pinned down to beer, especially in quantity. On the whole it goes down better with tobacco than other drinks; but I have never been a gargantuan swiller of it".[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, Addenda and Corrigenda to The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2006) Vol. 1: Chronology (accessed 28 May 2011)