'Oral Legislation' [or 'Respected Words']; 'Insults, "Names"' [or 'Jibes, Nicknames &c. Personal Peculiarities & Failings']
MS. Opie 71
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
'Oral Legislation' [or 'Respected Words']; 'Insults, "Names"' [or 'Jibes, Nicknames &c. Personal Peculiarities & Failings']
Shelfmark
MS. Opie 71
Summary
'Oral Legislation' [or 'Respected Words'] file includes a letter about the truce term 'faynites' by J.R.R. Tolkien addressed to the Editor of The Sunday Times, to be forwarded to the Opies (1951), and a subsequent letter from Tolkien's biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, requesting a photocopy of the letter (1978).
Date
c.1950s [and some earlier and later material]
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (2 files)
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Collection contents
Archive of Iona and Peter Opie
Working papers
Opie subject files
'Oral Legislation' [or 'Respected Words']; 'Insults, "Names"' [or 'Jibes, Nicknames &c. Personal Peculiarities & Failings']
