When the National Health Service was first established 75 years ago, the Ministry of Health commissioned a short animated film to help get the word out about how the service would affect the “ordinary family”.
The correspondence was part of an exchange between Tolkien and the British Council about funding for his research collaboration with his former Oxford student, Simonne d’Ardenne.
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