Christmas Letters


FATHER CHRISTMAS


The idea for these Christmas letters came from Baillie Tolkien's description of letters J. R. R. Tolkien wrote to his children in the book The Father Christmas Letters (1991, Houghton Mifflin).

Click on a stamp for that year's Christmas letter. These are large files, as they are scans of the orignal letters, and may take many minutes to load.



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