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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number ORWELL/G/2/18/16
TitleLetter to Fredric John Warburg
Date31 May 1947
DescriptionTypescript letter from George [Orwell] to Fred Warburg, sent from Jura, commenting on progress with the rough draft of the novel subsequently published as '<i>1984</i>', describing it as "a fantasy, but in the form of a naturalistic novel", and enclosing the "very bad" commercial typescript draft of the sketch of school life subsequently published as '<i>Such, such were the joys</i>' which he claims had been commissioned by Cyril Connolly for '<i>Horizon</i>' as a "pendant" for CC's '<i>Enemies of Promise</i>', (1f)
Extent1 letter
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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