'The Young Eric', by Jacintha Buddicom Two draft versions of Jacintha Buddicom's essay 'The Young Eric', about her friendship with George Orwell [Eric Blair] when they were teenagers. The text is typescript with a small number of minor annotations and corrections, and both versions are bound with ribbon. The '1st version' is dated 4 Feb 1971, and the '2nd version' is dated 10 Feb 1971. The article was published later in 1971, in Miriam Gross (ed.) 'The World of George Orwell', London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1971). 1971