| Description | Notebook, 75 ff. Manuscript written on 41 ff, with inside front and back covers written/drawn on also
Contents include:
Hand drawn map of south-eastern Europe
"Sinclair Lewis - dates"
"Nationalist leaders & romantics of foreign origin", continued on second page with non-foreign origin included
"Anything is untrue when said by a parrot", and continued list of nationalist leaders
"Corruption of aesthetic standards of political motives" article outline draft
"What is communism?" draft article outline
Draft of poem (incomplete), continued on two further pages
"Spearhead"draft article outline
"British newspapers" followed by numbers which possibly relate ot circulation numbers
30.3.48 Diary entry on illness, and writing after illness. Continued on the consecutive page
"Time table at this hospital"
18.4.48 Diary entry. Orwell writes about a memory of being shown a document "Something to do with India or Burma" by Cripps in 1942 or 1943. This entry is continued on a further page.
"Geo Gissing" notes for essay review
List of popular songs by era
21.5.48 Diary entry. Noises in a hospital. Also, observations "Things not forseen in youth as part of middle age"
"The Labour govt after three years" 3 ff
"Archaic or unusual words used only in one cliche phrase"
"Examples of critical English"
"Borderline expressions and words"
Notes on foreign words and expressions
"Universal sayings"
"Lay-out" [notes for Nineteen Eighty-four]
"Chapt VI (to be brought in) [notes for Nineteen Eighty-four]
Latin phrases, 8 ff
"Foreign words and phrases unnecessarily used in English"
"French" phrases and words, 2 ff
"Other languages" list of words
"Attachments"
Chapt VII [notes for Nineteen Eighty-four]
Chapt VI [notes for Nineteen Eighty-four]
"Short" list of MPs
"Articles" newspapers and numbers |