| Description | Material associated with George Orwell, 1935-1949, consisting of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) papers, 1941-1942, including weekly analysis of foreign broadcasts, Round Table discussions, and sub-committee minutes of the Staff Training Department; League for the Dignity and Rights of Man papers, 1946, including photocopies of papers and correspondence from the files, with copies of letters from Arthur Koestler to Orwell; Freedom Defence Committee papers, 1946-1949, being photocopies of papers from the files, and photocopies of letters in the possession of the writer and poet Sir Herbert Read, including a copy of a letter from Orwell to Read; telegram from Waithman, New York, on the American reception of 'Nineteen eighty-four', 1949; letters to Sir Richard Rees relating to Orwell, 1935-1937; letters to Roger Senhouse, publisher, 1940-1949, including a letter from Rebecca West; letter from Victor Gollancz promoting 'The road to Wigan pier', 1937; copy of letter from Louis MacNeice, of Faber & Faber, to Frederick Wilcox Dupee, relating to Orwell [1941]; copies of Fredric Warburg's report and statement on 'Nineteen eighty-four', 1948-1949; copies of letters to Fredric Warburg about conditions for publishing Orwell's books, 1947, and about Orwell's health, 1949; copies of letters from Ivor Brown of 'The Observer' to H G Wells and Mrs G P Wells, 1944, relating to Orwell, with H G Well's comments; letters from Stevie Smith, poet, to Clothilde and John Gabriel [1941]; lists of Orwell's books, with title 'Best books', recommended to Brenda Salkeld, a friend of Orwell. |