Blair, Eric Arthur, (1903-1950), novelist and journalist

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Alternative name(s):	George Orwell (Pseudonym)
Surname:	Blair
Forenames:	Eric Arthur
Gender:	Male
Date:	1903-1950
Biography:	ODNB link for Blair, Eric Arthur (1903-1950) Novelist and Journalist as George Orwell
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P133152 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P2704 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Eric Arthur Blair

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp and literary papers	See information in published source		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
2	1875-1997: corresp, notebooks and literary MSS	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL	See MS Collections in the Library, 1975; Annual Return 1999
3	adaptation scripts and screenplays	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (P)
4	1935-49: associated papers	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (I)
5	documentary scripts	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (Q)
6	1938-48: domestic diaries	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (F)
7	1875-1968: family papers	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (L)
8	1943-50: general notebooks	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (D)
9	1911-49: letters from Orwell	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (G)
10	1928-50: letters received	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (H)
11	letters received	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 49384
12	1939-49: literary notebooks	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (B)
13	1917-59: manuscripts and typescripts	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (A)
14	personalia	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (J)
15	photographs	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (T)
16	1938-42: political diaries	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (E)
17	1950-72: posthumous material	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (M)
18	1932-53: proofs	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (N)
19	1943-57: radio scripts	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (O)
20	1936-39: Spanish Civil War material	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (C)
21	1920-45: first wife's papers	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (K)
22	1937-77: second wife's papers	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL (S)
23	1948-49: corresp with Secker & Warburg, publishers	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL ARCHIVE	See Annual Return 1992
24	1911-12: letters to his mother, Ida Blair	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL ARCHIVE	See Annual Return 1993
25	1945-48: diary and corresp	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	Accs A 533-4	See Accessions to Repositories 1991
26	1982-96: papers of AM Heath & Co, literary agents, rel to Orwell estate	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	Acc 552 [closed]; Acc A 657	See Annual Return 1993, 1999
27	recordings	British Library, Sound Archive	C1409
28	1948-1949: letters (2) of George Orwell to Anthony Powell, 15 Nov 1948 and 4 Feb 1949	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	ORWELL

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Orwell, Sonia Mary, (1918-1980), literary assistant	Second wife	1949	Family