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  A curious letter recently found among J R R Tolkiens papers.
  
  
  Dear John
  
  I thought you might like to know of an unusual happening three nights ago here in Dover. One of the land army girls reported seeing a line of flickering lights moving over the hills from Farthingloe Farm towards Folkestone.
  
  Twenty soldiers were pulled off duty along the seafront to search the area but they could not find anything. They had searched for hours in the early morning light and through to mid morning.
  
  What was unusual about it you will be asking? I was talking to one of the soldiers in the Sir John Falstaff last night and he told me that he had found a short line of children's footprints in a muddy patch. When he told his C.O. about it he was told not to report it and that the papers were to be told not to report it.
  
  I am sure that I am not supposed to be telling you about it but I am sure that I can rely on your discretion. Please pass my regards on to Edith and I trust that Christopher is doing well.
  
  Yours
  
  
  This letter was dated August 1943 but appears not to have been posted. It was found amongst a small collection of Tolkien's unpublished letters and it is suspected that the writer, name unknown but from other evidence believed to have lived in Cherry Tree Avenue, may have passed it on to Tolkien some years later, having thought better about posting it during the war.

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