Letter 289d

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 289d
Recipient	Father Alex Jones
Date	18 October 1966 (unsent)
Subject(s)	Translations in The Jerusalem Bible

Letter 289d is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition.

Summary

In this unsent draft, Tolkien congratulated Father Alex Jones on the publication of The Jerusalem Bible and he thanked him for including his name as a contributor. He also mentioned his dislike for Ronald Knox's Vulgate translation and questioned Jones about a translation in The Jerusalem Bible.