Blair, Eric Arthur, 1903-1950 (Novelist and Journalist as George Orwell)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1903 - 1950
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File
Correspondence between Holbrook (five letters, print-out copies, one duplicated) and William Hunt (one e-mail print-out and nine letters, one incomplete), 29 June 2009-10 Oct. 2009 (and undated)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9987/7/1/126
Scope and Contents
William A. Hunt, Professor of History, St Lawrence University, New York . With a print-out of an e-mail from Richard Stibbs to Holbrook, copying one from Hunt to the webmaster of Downing College, Cambridge; a copy of pages 30-48 of a print-out of Holbrook's novel 'The Inevitable Price'; two copies of 'The Holbrook-Watson-Orwell Affair: A Proposed Chronology' by Hunt; two copies of a letter from Hunt to Alan Cameron of W. W. Norton & Company; and an envelope self-addressed by Hunt.
Dates:
29 June 2009-10 Oct. 2009 (and undated)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed. Two files are restricted on grounds of confidentiality, and a number of files are not available for research on account of the poor physical condition of the documents they contain.
File
'My Memories of the Great Four' , 1977-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/40
Scope and Contents
Two corrected copies of AFB's article for the Ethical Record (summarised from a lecture) on his memories of George Orwell [also Eric Blair], Bertrand Russell [3rd Lord Russell], H G Wells and George Bernard Shaw.
Dates:
1977-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 1