| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | ORWELL/I/2/C |
| Title | 'Statement on "Nineteen Eighty-Four"' |
| Date | [1949] |
| Description | 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". |
| Extent | 1 item (2ff) |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| PublnNote | This statement has been published in full in Bernard Crick, 'George Orwell: A Life' (1980), p. 395. |