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‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] cheese_greater 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are these not all published already, did Orwell have a DisneyVault?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is correspondence and such that's been sitting around in a warehouse for however many years, untouched.

[–] cheese_greater 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody has the other sides of the correspondances? How did the receiving parties not preserve their letters from Orwell?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It sounds like this was the receiving party: letters from Orwell to his publisher (and other papers related to publishing his work, like contracts and internal memos). if Orwell had kept copies for his records, I suspect they would already be properly archived, yes.