Letter from Humphry House 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). 3 April 1940