| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | ORWELL/N/10 |
| Title | 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (UK edition) |
| Date | 1949 |
| Description | Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. Corrected proof of the first UK edition bound in soft covers, 312pp. Roger Senhouse's copy, marked "R S 182/49". Annotated with some corrections.
Enclosures (in a separate envelope kept with the wrapped volume) include a flyer advertising the publication of the book and a typescript note from Orwell for the Danish translator clarifying a passage on p170 which is a telegram written in "newspeak". |
| Extent | 1 volume plus enclosures |
| Acquisition | Received at some point after May 1965 |
| 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. |
| Related Material | For a fully corrected proof copy see ORWELL/N/11. |