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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
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ORWELL (GEORGE) Autograph postcard signed ("George"), to the novelist Anthony Powell ("Anthony Powell Esq"), giving news of himself: he hopes to get to London by December or January, probably January, postmarked at Inverness on 20 September 1948
24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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ORWELL (GEORGE)
Autograph postcard signed ("George"), to the novelist Anthony Powell ("Anthony Powell Esq"), giving news of himself: he hopes to get to London by December or January, probably January, "according to when I get my book finished", and is much better, although has to go very slowly and spend half the day in bed, 1 page, with address, stamp and postmark, writing slightly smudged, overleaf with a photographic view headed 'Inverlussa, Isle of Jura', oblong 8vo, postmarked at Inverness on 20 September 1948
Footnotes
'ACCORDING TO WHEN I GET MY BOOK FINISHED' – Orwell to Powell on the last stages of writing Nineteen Eighty-Four: 'The six hours of each day that Orwell had been ordered to spend in bed proved no hardship. He was ill towards the end of September... any kind of exercise exhausted him... There was a plan to visit London, but everything was subordinate to the book' (Taylor, p. 395). We believe that this postcard is unpublished.





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