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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number ORWELL/H/1/31
TitleLetter from W Brown
DateUndated [c.September 1936]
DescriptionManuscript letter to [Eric] Blair from W[illiam] Brown, EB's guide to Sheffield when researching '<i>The Road to Wigan Pier</i>', wishing him well for "coming literary efforts", and mentioning [Gilbert] Searle (EB's host in Sheffield), the Summer School at John Middleton Murry's Adelphi Centre in Langham and N[eville] A[ldridge] Holdaway. Brown thanks EB for trouble taken with a manuscript, and laments the "feudalism" of Sevenoaks in contrast to the action and "progressive life" of Sheffield, (2ff).
Extent1 letter
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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