| Description | File labelled “John McNair”. Contains:
Typescript notes from an interview with McNair, McDonald Emslie and Ian Angus. Begins by identifying people in a photograph taken at the St Christopher’s ILP summer school in Letchworth, 1937. Biographical information, comments on mutual acquaintances, timeline of their shared experience of the Spanish Civil War. Dated April 1964.
Manuscript notes from the interview.
Photocopies of letters from McNair to Angus clarifying dates and events relevant to Orwell. 7 Dec 1966, 27 July 1967, and 5 March [year missing]
Further typescript notes from the interview with McNair, Emslie and Angus, April 1964. Similar but not identical to the first papers in this file.
Annotated photocopy of typescript notes from the April 1964 interview.
Photocopy of typescript notes (part of a letter?) on Orwell by John McNair, written in response to questions likely posed by Angus. Annotated “April 3rd 1961”.
Typescript notes in red, likely one of Ian Angus’ “scandal sheets”. Comments made during the interview with Angus and Emslie. [1964]
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