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This lot is offered without reserve.
One page, 252 x 202mm. Provenance: by descent from the recipient.'I congratulate you on managing the metre. C.S. Lewis tried and was totally defeated'. Sending thanks for remembering him again this year [at Christmas] and best wishes to his family.Lots 92 and 93 show Tolkien engaging with Michael Bell on the subject of poetry, praising the work produced by Bell and his wife. Writing two years later, he mentions again C.S. Lewis; the composition of verse was among the many shared pursuits enjoyed by the two friends.
成交價 英鎊 3,276
估價
英鎊 1,000 – 英鎊 1,500
估價不包括買家酬金。成交總額為下鎚價加以買家酬金及扣除可適用之費用。
試用
TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973)
One page, 252 x 202mm. Provenance: by descent from the recipient.'I congratulate you on managing the metre. C.S. Lewis tried and was totally defeated'. Sending thanks for remembering him again this year [at Christmas] and best wishes to his family.Lots 92 and 93 show Tolkien engaging with Michael Bell on the subject of poetry, praising the work produced by Bell and his wife. Writing two years later, he mentions again C.S. Lewis; the composition of verse was among the many shared pursuits enjoyed by the two friends.
成交價 英鎊 3,276
成交價 英鎊 3,276
榮譽呈獻
Thomas Venning
Head of Department, Books and Manuscripts