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In 1920, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote and illustrated a letter from Santa Claus for his three-year old son. This became a regular tradition for his children for the next twenty-three years.

This is a copy of one such letter where Santa tells the Tolkien boys that a polar bear climbed up on his roof and fell through.

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Cliff House

Top of the World

Near the North Pole

Xmas 1925

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A visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin (with a layover in London).

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