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- ↑ "J.R.R. Tolkien Reader's Guide Addenda and Corrigenda". Hammondandscull.com. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ↑ "Leeds University Library /All Locations". Lib.leeds.ac.uk. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ↑ Leeds, Brotherton Library, Tolkien-Gordon Collection, MS 1952/2/16.
- ↑ Bridget Mackenzie, 'Corrienessan', Ambaile: Highland History & Culture: http://www.ambaile.org.uk/detail/en/1268/1/EN1268-corrienessan.htm.
- ↑ Leeds, Brotherton Library, Tolkien-Gordon Collection, MS 1952/2/16.
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, information in this entry derives from Douglas A. Anderson, ' "An Industrious Little Devil": E. V. Gordon as Friend and Collaborator with Tolkien', in Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. by Jane Chance, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, 3 (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 15-25. ISBN 0-415-28944-0.
- ↑ "Tolkien-Gordon Collection - Leeds University Library". Library.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ↑ Gordon Collection Archived 16 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine .
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