| Description | Blue notebook labelled “Orwell / BBC letters / Material for footnotes”. Contains notes on Orwell’s writings, diaries and letters [with reference to numbered volumes, likely to be The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell by Ian Angus and Sonia Orwell]; rough transcripts of letters from Orwell marked ‘BBC Archive – Confidential’; notes on people, organisations and publications connected with Orwell. Approximately half the book is blank.
Brief notes for the introductions to vols. 1-4 at the rear and list of names, dates and subjects on the rear pastedown.
Loose slip at the front of the volume states that CK Ogden has found two letters from Orwell, one sent from the BBC in 1942 and one from Tribune in 1944. [NB this must pre-date Ogden's death in 1957]. |