| Description | File labelled “Pieces on Sonia in the Complete Orwell” / “Pieces on Sonia in Complete Works”.
Contains:
Photocopies of pages from Vol XX of Peter Davison’s “The Complete Works of George Orwell”, annotated, concerning corrections to a footnote to letter no. 3693 (17 September 1949) about Sonia. 1997, 1999. The letter concerns the announcement of Orwell’s engagement to Sonia.
Manuscript and typescript notes (by Angus?) relating to the corrections to be made to the footnote and Appendix XII, including copies of letters to Vanessa Parker and Peter Davison. 1992-1993.
Notes on a translation of a description of Sonia published by Michel Leiris in L’Ire des Vents nos 15-16, 1987.
Photocopy of an announcement of the establishment of the Orwell Archive at UCL, describing the material deposited by Sonia on permanent loan and encouraging other owners of Orwell-related material to deposit these with the archive. Photocopy of part of a press cutting announcing the same.1960.
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