"I REMEMBER YOU ... IN PRAYERS." 2 items: 1. Autograph Letter Signed ("Ronald"), 2 pp., 12mo, n.p., December 14th, 1967, to Rosfrith Murray, fine. In part: ''I send this small tale with very best wishes, for Christmas, and at all times. This is the American edition (better than ours, though I do not think much of the photograph. I do hope you will be able to find somewhere to live in comfort and companionship before long ... I remember you and your anxiety in prayers...." 2. Smith of Wootton Major. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Original pale green cloth decorated in green and lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Jacket with spine faintly toned, else a fine copy. First edition, signed ("J.R.R. Tolkien") on the half-title. Rosfrith Murray was the fourth daughter of Sir James A.H. Murray, founder of the Oxford English Dictionary. She spent much of her life working for her father on the Dictionary as an assistant. In November 1918 Tolkien joined the staff as an assistant lexicographer and claimed that, during the time he worked on the dictionary, he "learned more ... than in any other equal period of my life." During this time he met Rosfrith Murray and the two became close personal friends. Tolkien was rarely known to sign as "Ronald," and in no letter in Humphery Carpenter's The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien does he mention his prayers.
"I REMEMBER YOU ... IN PRAYERS." 2 items: 1. Autograph Letter Signed ("Ronald"), 2 pp., 12mo, n.p., December 14th, 1967, to Rosfrith Murray, fine. In part: ''I send this small tale with very best wishes, for Christmas, and at all times. This is the American edition (better than ours, though I do not think much of the photograph. I do hope you will be able to find somewhere to live in comfort and companionship before long ... I remember you and your anxiety in prayers...." 2. Smith of Wootton Major. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Original pale green cloth decorated in green and lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Jacket with spine faintly toned, else a fine copy. First edition, signed ("J.R.R. Tolkien") on the half-title. Rosfrith Murray was the fourth daughter of Sir James A.H. Murray, founder of the Oxford English Dictionary. She spent much of her life working for her father on the Dictionary as an assistant. In November 1918 Tolkien joined the staff as an assistant lexicographer and claimed that, during the time he worked on the dictionary, he "learned more ... than in any other equal period of my life." During this time he met Rosfrith Murray and the two became close personal friends. Tolkien was rarely known to sign as "Ronald," and in no letter in Humphery Carpenter's The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien does he mention his prayers.
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