The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume 1: Chronology. Christina Scull

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СКАЧАТЬ reward or return for the wealth of new material you have given’ (Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford).

      Between 3 and 11 June 1936 Tolkien writes to E.V. Gordon with queries about the London M.A. papers.

      11 June 1936 Tolkien attends an English Faculty Library Committee meeting in the Library. It is noted that Professor Tolkien, Dr Onions, and the Librarian have been requested to act as the Bodleian committee for the purchase of foreign books on English. – English Final Honour School Examinations begin. – E.V. Gordon writes in response to Tolkien’s queries. Vivas will be held in London on 12 June, before which date the marked scripts are required. Tolkien will not be concerned with vivas until the last two years of his appointment. The papers from overseas candidates will arrive for marking later. Gordon, the Smith Professor of English Language and Germanic Philology at the University of Manchester since autumn 1931, discusses the viva date for Manchester, where Tolkien is also an external examiner; Tolkien had hoped to be able to change it, but that will not be possible. Gordon hopes that Tolkien can be in Manchester on 26 June, as the relevant documents must be signed by both external examiners to be legal. He is sorry that Tolkien cannot stay for the weekend. As a result of the publication of Seinte Iuliene several scholars are revising their works in progress.

      14 June 1936 G.K. Chesterton dies.

      19 June 1936 Tolkien attends an English Faculty Board meeting. – He also attends a Pembroke College meeting.

      20 June 1936 Trinity Full Term ends.

      24 June 1936 Encaenia.

      18 July 1936 The Spanish Civil War begins.

      21 July 1936 Tolkien receives a letter from the BBC asking for permission to broadcast part of his translation of the Middle English poem Pearl in the late evening during August. Tolkien replies on the same day, authorizing the reading.

      7 August 1936 Part of Tolkien’s translation of Pearl is read on London regional radio at 11.40 p.m.

      10 August 1936 Tolkien writes to his son Christopher. ‘The Hobbit is now nearly finished, and the publishers clamouring for it’ (quoted in Biography, p. 180).

      22 August 1936 Edith Mary ‘May’ Incledon dies.

      ?Summer 1936 Tolkien learns that he has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from October 1936 for two years. – He engages his son Michael to help in making a fresh typescript of The Hobbit. In the event, Tolkien completes this himself.

      ?September 1936 The Tolkien family have two weeks’ holiday at Sidmouth.

      13 September 1936 The Rev. Adrian Morey writes to Tolkien. He has decided to include the text of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Our Father’ in a book, and asks Tolkien to write out a version to send to Cambridge University Press. The text will be published in Bartholomew of Exeter, Bishop and Canonist: A Study in the Twelfth Century (1937), in which Morey thanks Tolkien for his assistance.

      25 September 1936 Simonne d’Ardenne writes to Tolkien. As soon as she finishes an article on the Brussels Cross she will send it to him as he had asked. She is sending him three versions of Seinte Katerine; in these she has noted the illuminated capitals and thinks that the printer might represent each of these with a larger capital letter. She has made rough notes on the various manuscript readings, which will be useful if they succeed in getting the texts printed. She wishes him success in his forthcoming British Academy Lecture.

      27 September 1936 Tolkien replies to a letter from the Reverend Professor Dr A. Pompen in Nijmegen, Holland, who has asked if the Tolkien family would be willing to take a paying guest. Although Tolkien would welcome additional income to offset the cost of accidents this year to himself and one of his sons, and of another son about to enter university, the family are not in a position suitably to entertain a guest. Edith is in poor health, and for help they are reduced to brief daily maid service.

      3 October 1936 Tolkien has finished retyping The Hobbit, but sends Allen & Unwin an earlier typescript with the final chapters added.

      5 October 1936 Allen & Unwin receive the Hobbit typescript, as well as one illustration for that work, probably one of the maps Tolkien has drawn to accompany the story. – Stanley Unwin writes to Tolkien, acknowledging receipt of the typescript. Both Unwin and his ten-year-old son *Rayner will read it before 20 October. Unwin expresses an interest in publishing Tolkien’s translation of Pearl and asks if he can see it.

      10 October 1936 The typescript of The Hobbit is read by Stanley Unwin.

      11 October 1936 Michaelmas Full Term begins. Tolkien’s scheduled lectures for this term are: Beowulf: General Criticism on Tuesdays at 11.00 a.m. in the Examination Schools, beginning 13 October; Elene on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12.00 noon in the Examination Schools, beginning 13 October; and Alliterative Verse on Thursdays at 11.00 a.m. in the Examination Schools, beginning 15 October. – Tolkien’s eldest son, John, is now a student at his father’s old college, Exeter.

      16 October 1936 In the evening, Tolkien attends a dinner of The Society hosted by Nevill Coghill at Exeter College, Oxford. Fifteen members are present. Coghill speaks about the making of good Europeans by an exchange of schoolboys.

      21 October–2 November 1936 The children’s author Rose Fyleman, also a free-lance reviewer for Allen & Unwin, reads the Hobbit typescript.

      22 October 1936 Tolkien attends an English Faculty Library Committee meeting in the Library.

      26 October 1936 R.W. Chapman of Oxford University Press writes to George S. Gordon. He is pleased to learn that Tolkien has received an increase in salary, which he hopes will relieve him of drudgery, and that he has been given a Leverhulme Research Fellowship; but the type for the Clarendon Chaucer has been standing for more than ten years, and Chapman does not think there is much chance that Tolkien will finish his part of the work. Kenneth Sisam has suggested E.V. Gordon or Oxford D.Phil. student *J.A.W. Bennett to replace Tolkien on the project.

      27 October 1936 Formation of the Berlin-Rome Axis.

      28 October 1936 George S. Gordon replies to R.W. Chapman. He thinks that Tolkien finished most of his annotation years ago, but on too large a scale, and found it too tedious to abbreviate. He will speak to Tolkien about making another effort to finish his work.

      30 October 1936 Tolkien attends an English Faculty Board meeting. He is re-elected to the Applications Committee. It is resolved that the Standing Committee on Applications should meet at 3.30 p.m. on the Thursday preceding the day of the Board’s meeting. – Rayner Unwin writes a favourable review of The Hobbit, for which he is paid one shilling.

      c. November 1936 Tolkien writes out a chart of Quenya noun inflections (*‘The Bodleian Declensions’).

      4 November 1936 Tolkien attends a Pembroke College meeting.

      5 November 1936 George S. Gordon has spoken to Tolkien about completing the Clarendon Chaucer. He informs Oxford University Press that Tolkien will try again to do so.

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