Letter 222b

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 222b
Recipient	Rayner Unwin
Date	12 February 1960
Subject(s)	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, The Silmarillion, and Ancrene Wisse

'Letter 222b is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition.

Summary

Tolkien wrote to Unwin to inform him that work on his translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl had to be paused while he was getting The Silmarillion typed out. He also indicated that he was intending to return to the translations of Gawain and Pearl but a few days earlier, he received proofs of Ancrene Wisse.