While a patient at the Cotswold Sanatorium, Orwell read the proofs of 1984 and wrote five reviews. He began but did not finish an article on Evelyn Waugh, made notes for an essay on Conrad, and sketched out a long short-story, "A Smoking-Room Story." The volume includes many unpublished letters, Warburg's report on his visit to Cranham, a clarification of Orwell's public statement on 1984, and a detailed examination of Orwell's relationship with the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office.
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