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‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 7 points 2 years 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.