| Description | Original letters, 1928-1950, to George Orwell, usually concerning literary or political subjects. Correspondents include John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Franz Borkenau, Ernest Bramah, Gerald Brenan, Joyce Cary, Alex Comfort, Cyril Connolly, John Dos Passos, Tom Driberg, Lawrence Durrell, Thomas Stearns Eliot, William Empson, Eyre & Spottiswoode Limited (Graham Greene), Faber & Faber Limited (T S Eliot), Edward Morgan Forster, Victor Gollancz, Rayner Heppenstall, Aldous Huxley, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, Arthur Koestler, Harold J Laski, Henry Miller, Malcolm Muggeridge, John Middleton Murry, 'The Observer' newspaper, 'Partisan Review' (Dwight Macdonald), Herbert Read, Sir Richard Rees, Bertrand Russell, Victor Serge, Stephen Spender, Fredric John Warburg (Chairman of Secker & Warburg Ltd, publishers), Evelyn Waugh, Dame Rebecca West, and Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. |