| Description | File labelled “IA and Orwell”. Contains correspondence of Ian Angus and others relating to Orwell, chiefly publications about Orwell and editions of his work. Including:
Letters to Ian Angus and Sonia Orwell in praise of the “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell”, which they edited. 1968-69;
Letters relating to “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell”; an Orwell exhibition at UCL in which proofs of “Down and Out” and Orwell’s literary notebook containing notes for “The Last man in Europe” and “The Quick and the Dead” were displayed;
Requests for permission to use the Orwell archive;
Permissions to quote from and publish Orwell’s works, including re: William Steinhoff’s “The Road to 1984”;
Dispute over the publication of an abridged Russian translation of “Animal Farm” by Possev-Verlag in 1950 where passages relating to religion were cut;
Various queries and discussions relating to the Orwell Archive;
Letters with and about Bernard Crick and his Orwell biography;
Discussion with Yasuharu Okuyama and Yasuo Kawabata on the origin of the phrase “He’s dead, but he won’t lie down”;
Letters relating to Peter Davison’s “The Complete Works of George Orwell” (1998) including re: publicity and reviews;
Letters from Angus to others correcting the misapprehension that Sonia was not as involved as him in the editing of their 1968 “Collected Essays”, and the reasons for Sonia marrying George Orwell, relating to Jeffrey Meyers’ writings about Orwell;
Press cuttings and letters relating to Orwell’s [Communist] “fellow-travellers” notebook and the claim that he passed the names to the government;
Miscellaneous letters relating to publications about Orwell. 1975-2004.
Correspondents include Angus, Sonia, MD Emslie, Bernard Crick, Bill Goodman, Howard Fink, John Rodden, Bill Hamilton, Nicholas Walker, Gordon Bowker, D J Taylor, Jeffrey Meyers, Celia Kirwan, Peter Davison and many others.
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