| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | ORWELL/H/1/20/3 |
| Title | Letter from Franz Borkenau |
| Date | 14 September 1949 |
| Description | Typescript letter to Orwell, describing '<i>1984</i>' as "immeasurably more powerful" than '<i>Animal Farm</i>' and "the only book which seems to me to convey fully what a totalitarian regime means in terms of the individuals living under it". The letter also mentions Ruth Fischer, and Edith Schmidt, (1f). |
| Extent | 1 letter |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Copyright | Estate of Franz Borkenau, (d.1957) |