[William Cloud Hicklin]

nothing of the original documents of anything within these twelve volumes (including the drafts for The Lord of the Rings)

The drafts for The Lord of the Rings are in Milwaukee, not Oxford. Much of CT's work on Vols VI-IX was done from photocopies Marquette sent him, with analysis of the originals done where necessary by the late Taum Santoski, at the time the archivist there.

There were additional LR papers which his father had simply misplaced and forgotten when the sale to Marquette was made in the 50's; CT however has subsequently sent them all there, on the honorable premise that the intent of the original sale was to include all of the material.