| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | ORWELL/H/1/89 |
| Title | Letter from Humphry House |
| Date | 3 April 1940 |
| Description | Manuscript letter from [Arthur] Humphry House to Mr Orwell, noting his admiration of '<i>Inside the Whale and other essays</i>' for which he had written a short review in '<i>The Spectator</i>', debating Dickens at length, in response to the essay about him in the book. HH went on to write '<i>The Dickens World</i>, perhaps the project here referred to as "a short book, which I never meant to write", The letter also discusses the development of Richard Acland's '<i>Manifesto for the Common Man</i>' which was being constructed with the support of the Mass Observation project, noting that Orwell himself had been asked to comment, (7ff). |
| 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 | AHH d.1955: Dr David Sutton: UK WATCH Office: The Library, The University of Reading, P. O. Box 223, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AE; d.c.sutton@reading.ac.uk |