Tolkien on de Camp's "Swords & Sorcery" Anthology

In July 1964, L. Sprague de Camp sent J.R.R. Tolkien a copy of his anthology, Swords & Sorcery, which had been published in December 1963. It is a collection of eight stories, with an introduction by de Camp, and colored cover art and eight interior black and white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Tolkien already knew the art of Virgil Finlay because his American publisher, Houghton