273 From a letter to Nan C. Scott 

21 July 1965

[Mrs Scott was a leading campaigner in the battle to keep the pirate edition of The Lord of the Rings out of the American bookshops.]

I am extremely grateful for the information that you have sent me, and still more for your great kindness and energy in attempting to combat the pirates on my behalf. .... I have been taken off all my other work and driven nearly over the edge by the attempt to get an authorized paperback by Ballantine Books produced as soon as possible.