Letter 56

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 56
Recipient	Christopher Tolkien
Date	1 March 1944
Subject(s)	Inklings

Letter 56 is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Summary

Christopher Tolkien was in an RAF training camp in South Africa since January, and his father wrote regularly.

The fragment had three trivial subjects. Tolkien started his letter telling about the return of the "Useless Quack", Robert Havard, who had joined the Navy medical corps and was on leave in Oxford. He then told of C.S. Lewis and the inaccuracy of the press (concerning Mr. Lewis), and closed the letter with a remark about the weather.

In the expanded edition

in the first paragraph Tolkien shows delight that he has received airgraph messages from Christopher, and wonders whether he will visit Bloemfontein, where Tolkien was born.

Tolkien ends the letter with "God bless you."