Two small anniversaries today: firstly, the 78th anniversary of Christopher Tolkien’s 21st birthday, which produced this very fine invitation to the ‘do’ from his parents:
(With thanks to this source.)
It’s also the 81st anniversary of this diary entry from James Lees-Milne
(I have this feeling regularly, and not because I get through a lot of difficult work, but because I spend so much of my time when I should be working posting this nonsense instead. Ah, well…)
