| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | ORWELL/H/2/70 |
| Title | Letter from Barclay Sampson |
| Date | 10 August 1938 |
| Description | Letter from [Jessica] Barclay Sampson to George Orwell, noting her membership of the Independent Labour Party and her presence during his Kingsley Hall appearance with Stafford Cottman, reflecting her own experience in the light of '<i>The Road to Wigan Pier</i>', offering her own unpublished draft (presumably '<i>Sluggards' Comfort: Sidelights on slum clearance and re-housing</i>', written under the pen name Morwenna Pendour) as background if he were to pursue further writing on slums and slum clearance, and seeking advice about obtaining '<i>Down and Out in Paris and London</i>', (2ff). |
| Extent | 1 letter |
| 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. |
| Copyright | Estate of Jessica Barclay Sampson, d.1976 |
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