Letter 249a

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Letter 249a
Recipient	Christopher Tolkien
Date	20 October 1963
Subject(s)	Christopher Tolkien's election to fellowship at New College, Oxford

Letter 249a is a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition.

Summary

Tolkien wrote to Christopher and mentioned that Edith Tolkien had handed him a note in the Oxford Times where Doctor Lewis Farnell had congratulated an unnamed newly elected fellow at Exeter College. Tolkien commented that Farnell was pedantically courteous. Tolkien said that he believed Christopher had also received a nice letter reconizing his election to a fellowship at New College.