| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections | 
| Level | Item | 
| Reference Number  | ORWELL/H/1/100/1 | 
| Title | Letter from C E M Joad | 
| Date | Undated [c.8 Septemeber 1949] | 
| Description | Manuscript letter from Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad praising '<i>1984</i>' as a "masterpiece" that "upset me more than anything I have read since Brave New World in the early thirties", and mentioning his own '<i>Decadence</i>', (1f). | 
| Extent | 1 letter | 
| 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. | 
| Copyright | Miss Ruth Joad: 161a Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5QH |