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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dalya Alberge

About 160 historic George Orwell papers saved for nation after outcry

Shot of a person's hands holding a Post Office telegram with several other papers laid out below on a desk
Some of the papers that will now form part of the Orwell Archive at University College London. Photograph: Mary Hinkley/University College London

George Orwell’s correspondence, contracts and readers’ reports relating to his earliest novels are among historic papers that have been saved for the nation after an outcry over their initial dispersal.

University College London (UCL) said it had acquired the archive of the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s publisher as “a valuable piece of Britain’s cultural heritage”.

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