Letter 8

Letter 8 is the eighth letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Summary
Tolkien informed the Vice Chancellor that he had been elected (see Letter 7) to the Rawlinson and Bosworth professorship at Oxford, and therefore was tendering his resignation. He apologised for the brevity of his appointment at Leeds, where he had only been working five years.