tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post1773397063972528837..comments2024-03-28T13:10:04.655+00:00Comments on The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog: JRR Tolkien's nervous breakdownBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-13075079251545489022018-08-24T06:56:12.892+01:002018-08-24T06:56:12.892+01:00@David - "How much of the Notion Club Papers ...@David - "How much of the Notion Club Papers early draft version(s) are written prior to May 1945". Christopher Tolkien says NCP was written from late 1945, months after the death of CW. Which fits with CW Not being included in the early-draft musings about which Notion Club members corresponded with which Inklings - CW could hardly have been left out if he was alive. (Although Warnie *was* largely left out, despite being a regular attender - perhaps because his contribution to the issues of the NCP was mainly convivial and as a discerning appreciator). Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-38642285327694111742018-08-24T01:27:49.846+01:002018-08-24T01:27:49.846+01:00Not having done any reading in published letter or...Not having done any reading in published letter or diary extracts after reading this, I wonder:<br /><br />what element could the end of years of concern about his sons in the war, now they had survived, have in this?;<br /><br />where was Priscilla (away at school?)?<br /><br />How much of the Notion Club Papers early draft version(s) are written prior to May 1945, given the deleted reference to The House of the Octopus, which I presume must have been there in badinage with Williams while he was still alive?<br /><br />David Llewellyn DoddsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com