Letters from J. R. R. Tolkien

This material is held atCardiff University Archives / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Reference
- GB 1239 401/16
Dates of Creation
- 1924-1925
Physical Description
- 2 letters, 1 review

Scope and Content

Two manuscript letters from Tolkien to Brett, August 1924 and February 1925, relating to an edition of Sir Gawain & the green knight produced by J. R. R. Tolkien & E. V. Gordon (Oxford, 1925). An offprint of Brett's review of the book.

Archive Record|Table of contents

Papers of Prof. Cyril Brett (1882-1936), Professor of English, 1921-36401

Catalogue of books401/1

Notes on Old English literature401/2

Miscellaneous notebooks401/3

Miscellaneous notebooks401/4

Miscellaneous notebooks401/5

Notes on English language401/6

Notes on Old English syntax401/7

Old English poems and prose401/8

Anglo-Saxon words401/9

Plant names401/10

Miscellaneous notes401/11

Notes on Beowulf401/12

Notes on Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight401/13

Glossary to 'Sir Gawayne'401/14

Notes on Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight401/15

Letters from J. R. R. Tolkien401/16

Literary and philological notes401/17

Geography notes401/18

Notes on ale, beer401/19

Notebook 'Verb substantive & declension of substantives'401/20

Notebook 'Cato… Some medieval ghost stories'401/21

Notebook 'Philology - verbs'401/22

Miscellaneous philological notes401/23

Notebook: philological notes401/24

Notebooks of Shakespearean quotations on folklore401/25

Notebook of references to chess401/26

Notes on chess401/27

List of Tennyson's works401/28

List of works containing poems by Tennyson401/29

Papers relating to Cyril Brett's Tennyson collection401/30

Letters from Cardiff City Libraries Committee401/31

Index of printers and their signs401/32

Annotated copy of 'The history of signboards'401/33

Notes on innsigns and other tradesmen's signs401/34

Original manuscript of William Gilpin, 'Three essays'401/35

Annotated copy of 'Milton tercentenary'401/36

Manuscript copy of 'The legends of the Holy Rood'401/37

Annotated copy of 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke'401/38

Letters to Brett401/39

Theatre programmes, tickets, etc.401/40

Miscellaneous notes, press cuttings, postcards401/41

Diary of lectures given or attended401/42

Miscellaneous notes, letters, cuttings, postcards401/43

Miscellaneous notes, offprints, pamphlets401/44

Miscellaneous notes, cuttings, postcards, letters401/45

Album of postcards401/46

Notes on heraldry of Welsh families401/47

Manuscript of 'The syntax of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde'401/48

Extracts from the registers of St. Peter's, Cornhill401/49

Notebook of Herbert Bruce, on historical English syntax401/50

Notebook of Herbert Bruce, on Old English literature401/51

Notebook of Herbert Bruce, on historical English grammar401/52

Two notebooks of Herbert Bruce401/53

Notebook of Harold Littledale on Elizabethan folklore401/54

'A Picture Book of British History' with postcards401/55

Indexes to pamphlets401/56