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'''Pauline Baynes 4 June 1949''' is a [[Letters not published in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"|letter]] from [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to [[Pauline Baynes]], composed on [[June 4]]th, [[1949]]. It was written following the completion of Tolkien's manuscript of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.  
'''Pauline Baynes 4 June 1949''' is a [[Letters not published in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"|letter]] from [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] to [[Pauline Baynes]], composed on [[4 June|June 4]]th, [[1949]]. It was written following the completion of Tolkien's manuscript of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.  


*'''Authenticity''': High (the letter is mentioned in ''[[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide]]: [[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology|Chronology]]'', on p.350)
*'''Authenticity''': High (the letter is mentioned in ''[[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide]]: [[The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology|Chronology]]'', on p.350)

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Pauline Baynes 4 June 1949 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes, composed on June 4th, 1949. It was written following the completion of Tolkien's manuscript of The Lord of the Rings.

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I ought to have written to you before to tell you of the great pleasure that your drawings in illustration of "Farmer Giles" have given me. My friends, very justly, said after seeing them that they had reduced the text to a commentary on the pictures. I am hoping soon to get some larger works published, and in a more ample fashion; and if so, I hope you might be interested, or at least have time to consider them. One, a long romance in sequel to The Hobbit, is finished after some years of work, and is being typed. It is held up at the moment, since I am immersed in examinations and other weary business; but when it's done, I wonder if I could prevail on you to glance at it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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