A Hitherto Overlooked 1925 Letter from Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, Then at Leeds University, to the about-to-retire from Oxford Professor Joseph Wright

Abstract

Various of his admirers and old pupils and wrote personal letters to him, when announcement had been made, in January 1925, of his retirement to Professor Joseph Wright, the modestly nurtured Yorkshireman, the holder of the Chair of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford.