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ORWELL (GEORGE) Autograph letter signed ("George"), to the novelist Anthony Powell ("Dear Tony"), describing his reviewing work for the Times Literary Supplement and reporting on improved health having embarked on a course of streptomycin, Ward 3, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, 8 March 1948
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Footnotes
'EVELYN WAUGH'S & GRAHAM GREENE'S UNIFORM EDITIONS ARE VERY CHEAP-LOOKING' – Orwell to Powell on the publishing standards of his books.
Among the reviews he mentions is "a rather dreadful anthology of recent American stuff called 'Spearhead'": this appeared in the TLS on 17 April 1948 and offered a long and wide-ranging review of current American poetry and prose, taking sideswipes at, among others, William Carlos Williams and E.E. Cummings, 'an irritating writer'; and noting that 'Henry Miller's favourite verb has been laboriously blacked out by hand, over a stretch of fifty pages'.





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