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ORWELL (GEORGE) Autograph letter signed ("George"), to the novelist Anthony Powell ("Dear Tony"), giving a detailed account of his health, the treatment available and his hopes of securing a consignment to somewhere warm abroad for a couple of months, Barnhill, Isle of Jura, Argyllshire, 29 November 1947
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
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'DONE THE ROUGH DRAFT OF MY NOVEL – WHICH I ALWAYS CONSIDER THE HALF-WAY MARK' – ORWELL TO POWELL, ON HIS PROGRESS ON NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.
The other novel which he describes as having been "rather killed by the war" is Coming Up for Air, which had been published on 12 June 1939 and which, in fact, sold well and was almost immediately reprinted. The second edition to which this letter refers came out on 13 May 1948, constituting the first volume in the Universal Edition of Orwell's works; the proofs of which Orwell received on 7 October and returned on 22 October 1947. Powell published John Aubrey and His Friends in 1948, and Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings of John Aubrey in 1949. This letter is included in the selected edition, George Orwell: A Life in Letters. See illustration on preceding page.





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