'Statement on "Nineteen Eighty-Four"' A carbon copy of a typescript piece of writing entitled 'Statement on "Nineteen Eighty-Four"'. This is the text of a post-publication press release by George Orwell's publisher, Fredric Warburg, from notes dictated by Orwell in 1949. It has been annotated (presumably by Roger Senhouse) with pencil at the top: "Use with discretion until OK'd by George". [1949]