Carta a Miss Kilbride

On 24 December 1938, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to Miss Kilbride (Katherine or Kitty), a friend and former student.

• Subject: Personal greetings. News of the hardships suffered that year and of his family, and complaining abut the state of Oxford in the age of Morris Motors.
• Description: Postcard (reproducing in colours Josef Madlener's Heilige Familie), one page, closely written in a minute hand.
• Publication: A reproduction of and quotes from the letter appeared in the auction catalogue Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs 12 June 2012.