25 Manuscript letters to his mother Mrs Ida Blair

Item author: George Orwell (Eric Blair)
Item date: 1911 - 12
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 10,000
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: University College London
Town/City: London

Written during his first two years at St Cyprians prep school, Eastbourne. They show a cheerful uncomplicated boy enjoying life - a very different picture to the one Orwell later chose to give in Such, Such were the Joys, 1968. Illustrated at p.20 of AR