| Description | Posthumous material, 1950-1972, relating to George Orwell, including Sir Richard Rees' draft entry on Orwell for the 'Dictionary of National Biography' [1950]; typescript and manuscript versions of a letter from Arthur Koestler to David Astor [1950]; papers of Roger Senhouse, 1950-1951, comprising a letter from John Morris enclosing a copy of recollections of Orwell, a related letter from Sir Richard Rees, two letters from Sonia Orwell, and a copy libel report on 'Such were the joys'; typescript of 'The young Eric' by Jacintha Buddicom, 1971; Lettice Cooper's original typescript account of Eileen Blair's life; typescript of 'George Orwell - dark side out' by Tom Hopkinson [1953]; copy letters from Victor Gollancz to Howard Fink, 1963; typescript and manuscript versions of Denys King-Farlow's 'College days with George Orwell'; copy of typescript about Orwell by Malcolm Muggeridge, 1971, with letters to Muggeridge about Orwell, 1955; letters to Sir Richard Rees from E R Ward, 1955; typescript of 'A writer's life' by Tosco Fyvel, 1950, copy of typescript of 'Orwell at Tribune' by Fyvel, 1971, and 'Orwell revised', 1959, with meeting notes between Fyvel and Howard Fink at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1962; miscellaneous letters to Fyvel, 1958; copy of typescript 'A boy's view of George Orwell' by Richard S Peters (a pupil of Orwell's in 1930-1931); John Lehmann's draft typescript and proof of review of Stansky and Abrahams 'The unknown Orwell', 'Sunday Telegraph', 1972; copy of typescript 'Memories of George Orwell' by Michael Meyer, 1971; typescript reminiscence of Orwell by Miranda Wood, his typist. |