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  Macmurray, John, 200, 403, 404

  McNair, John, 517; 69, 70, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 83, 84

  Madrid, 75, 76-7, 78, 79, 82, 84, 93

  Magnet, 169, 175, 304

  Mahommed, Mahdjoub, 143, 144, 149

  Maidstone, 103, 160

  Mailer, Norman, 479

  Maison de Madame Tellier, La, 48

  Majestic Hotel, Marakesh, 117

  Malaya, 195, 288

  Malraux, Andre, 39, 41 44, 246, 274

  Mammett, The, 96, 98

  Manchester, 57, 58

  Manchester Evening News, 221, 237, 242 245, 289, 295

  Manchester Guardian, 58, 101, 355, 394, 454, 458, 414

  M & B, 390, 391

  Mandelstam, Osip?, 401, 401

  Marina, Princess, 44, 45

  Marlowe, Christopher, 16

  Marrakech, 118-9, 120, 121, 124, 128, 129, 140, 142, 143, 147, 148, 149, 151, 154, 157

  marriage, 9, 10, 62, 66, 307, 490, 490

  Marshall, George, C., 411, 411

  Marshall, Jessica, 517; L: 407; xv Marshall Plan, 410, 411

  Martin, David, 284, 285

  Martin, Kingsley, 99, 100, 101, 131, 330, 463, 464

  Marty, Andre, 78

  Marvell, Andrew, 175

  Marx, Karl/Marxism, 31, 43, 75, 83, 95, 98, 134, 297, 365, 404, 464

  Marx (poodle), 95, 97, 120, 121, 122, 125, 146, 148

  M[arylebone] C[ricket] C[lub], 106, 107

  Masaryk, Jan, 395

  Mason, George, 249, 252, 255

  Maude, aunt, 74

  Maugham, Somerset, 269

  Maupassant, Guy de, 48

  Maurin Hospital, 78, 82, 84

  Maxton, James, 84, 85, 89, 100, 138

  May, Allan Nunn, 362, 362, 382

  'May Events', Barcelona, 31, 71, 93

  Meade, Frank, 57, 58

  Meccano, 421, 425

  Memories of Lenin, 354, 356

  Mencken, H.L., 19

  metric measurements, 431, 447

  Mexico, 67, 298, 299, 448

  Meyer, Michael, 518; L: 312, 450; 305, 306, 451, 457, 458

  Meynell, Godfrey, 63, 63

  Michal Madeleine, 10

  Middlesmoor, 127, 315

  Mikardo, Ian, 463, 465, 470

  Milborne St Andrew, x

  Miller, Henry, 518; L: 63; 65, 169, 173, 173, 294

  Miller, J.E., 267, 268

  Million, 267, 268, 268

  Milton, Harry, 76, 84, 85

  Ministry of Food, 116, 188, 238, 240, 248, 256, 257, 258

  Ministry of Information (MOI), 197, 222, 235, 274, 462, 490

  Ministry of Transport, 126

  Ministry of Truth, 197

  Mizpah, 147, 149

  Modern English Usage, A Dictionary of, 48, 49

  Modern Quarterly, 296, 297

  Modern Utopia, A, 345

  Modern Youth, 14

  Mogador, 256

  Moir, Eleanor, 462

  Monat, Der, 479, 480, 481

  money borrowed, 51, 52, 74, 110, 115, 147, 149, 150, 160, 191

  Monflorite, 71, 72

  Monte Carlo, 299, 301

  Moore, George, 408

  Moore, Leonard, 518; L: 14, 22, 41, 43, 56, 139, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 182, 206, 224, 228, 230, 233, 235, 240, 241, 269, 274, 331, 332, 339, 358, 360, 368, 395, 406, 424, 435, 452, 479, 481; and see Christy & Moore; L: from Eileen, 107, 243; xiv, 14, 42, 52, 54, 98, 102, 115, 132, 172, 234, 235, 238, 260, 341, 342, 344, 375, 386, 426, 456, 471, 480

  Moos, S., L: 127

  Morgan, Bryan, 182

  Morland, Andrew, 438, 474, 474, 478, 484, 485, 486

  Morlock, D.V., 456, 466, 466, 471

  Morocco, French, 115-165 et passim description, 119, 121, 124, 128, 135, 137-8, 141, 142, 143, 147, 151, 157

  Morocco, Spanish, 156, 166, 190

  Morris, John, 276, 277

  Mortimer, Raymond, 518;L: 99; summary of letter, 101; 98-9

  Moscow, 80, 85, 246, 264, 265, 266, 285, 291, 292, 331, 355, 418, 458, 459

  Mosley, Oswald, 58, 58, 87, 164, 381, 382

  Motihari, x

  motor boat, 20, 323, 385, 462, 484

  motor-cycle, 54, 179, 292, 313, 316, 317, 322

  Mounier, Emmanuel, 403, 404

  Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, 451, 467, 468

  Muggeridge, Malcolm, 263, 355, 421, 432, 442, 475, 490

  Munich, 122, 127, 303-4, 343, 364

  Muriel, 123, 152, 157-8, 162, 166; and see goats Murry, John Middleton, 518; L: 236, 392, 401; 11, 12, 53, 58, 82, 153, 158, 201, 237, 390, 393, 395

  Mussolini, Benito, 70, 152, 289, 356

  Myanmar: see Burma My Caves, 393

  Myers, L.H., 105, 115, 149, 192, 212, 276, 290

  repayment, 289

  Myles, Norah, 518; L: from Eileen, 66, 69, 94, 146, 183, 187; xv, 221, 260

  Myles, Quartus St Leger, 65, 97, 148, 183, 259

  Mynors, Roger, 6, 7, 345

  Nagel, Paris, 41, 274, 298

  Naini Tal, x

  Naked and the Dead, The, 479

  Napoleon, 48, 207, 246, 281

  narrator, role of, 325, 338, 339, 405

  N[ational] C[ouncil for] C[ivil] L[iberties], 409

  National Dried Milk, 419, 421

  NBC broadcast, 431, 481, 481

  Negrin, Dr Juan, 285, 287

  Negro, 43, 156, 228, 268, 420

  Nelson (nee Fletcher), Margaret, 255, 315

  Neumann, Margarete, 460, 462, 463

  Neumann, Robert, 229

  Newcastle upon Tyne, xiii, 221, 242, 253, 254, 257, 261, 401

  New Economic Policy (USSR), 336

  New English Weekly, 16, 18, 23, 64, 102, 144

  New Grub Street, 408, 439, 467

  New Lanark, 404

  New Leader, 74, 136, 457, 463, 468

  New Party, the, 58, 87

  New Republic, 329, 330, 335, 336, 353

  New Road, 213, 215

  News Chronicle, 89, 92, 93, 110, 137, 178, 275

  newsletters for BBC, writing, 195; reading, 208

  News Review, 178

  New Statesman (and Nation), 19, 20, 81, 84, 90, 98-101, 102, 133, 165, 329, 330, 381

  New Testament, 62, 63

  New Writing, 68, 139, 140, 213

  New York, 37, 39, 43, 206, 275, 284, 289, 339, 390, 395, 431, 439

  New Yorker, xii, 327, 329, 412

  New York Herald Tribune, 42

  New York Times Book Review, 449

  Nicholls, Beverley, 48

  Nicholls's goat, 152

  Nicholson & Watson, 229, 230, 231

  Nidderdale, 315

  Niebuhr, Helmut, 463, 464

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 463, 464

  Nin, Andres, 84, 85, 92, 99

  Nineteen Eighty-Four, ix, xi, xiv, xvi, 9, 11, 65, 197, 318, 321, 431, 442

  abridgement, 453, 471, 472, 481

  as 1984, 435, 435, 436

  blurb, 376, 427

  broadcast, 431, 481, 481

  Facsimile edn., 321, 435-6

  metric measurements, 431, 447

  preliminary thoughts, 9, 217, 226, 232-3, 346

  Room 101, 197, 476 (vulgarity of), serialisation, 480

  should write some book, 251

  title, 346, 418

  2 + 2 = 5, 232

  US attempts to cut, 431, 452-3, 456, 459, 481

  writing it, 269, 281, 282, 329, 346, 357, 360, 375, 414, 416, 425, 443

  Niven, David, 432, 481

  NKVD, 31, 356, 458

  No Orchids for Miss Blandish, 229

  North Africa, 115, 152, 186, 212, 215, 216, 310, 470; and see Morocco No Such Liberty, 202

  'Notes on (by) the Way', 61, 62

  'Notes on Nationalism', 275, 297

  'nothing ever dies', 473

  Nursery Rhymes, 44

  Obelisk Press, 173

  Obermeyer, Rosalind, xii-xiii, 53

  Observer, The, L: to Frederick Tomlinson, 369; 18, 19, 74, 107, 137, 204, 215, 216, 217, 221, 242, 244, 249, 260,
262, 266, 267, 291, 299, 323, 375, 380, 387, 390, 392, 398, 418, 422, 425, 454, 457, 458, 467, 478

  Odd Women, The, 399, 408, 467

  O'Donovan, Patrick, 422, 423

  O[fficers'] T[raining] C[orps], 7, 158, 159

  Ogden, C.K., 518; L: 226; 227

  Old Wives' Tale, The, 55

  On a Chinese Screen, 269

  'On a Ruined Farm near the HMV Gramophone Factory', 35

  onto/on to, 447, 447 et passim Operation Plunder, 260

  Opium Department: see Indian Civil Service oranges distributed, 253

  orientals, 392

  Orlando, Ruggiero, 467, 468

  Orlov, Viktor, 31

  Orwell, George, L: 74-6; L: from Eileen: 247-56, 258-60, 260-1

  attitude to biography, 317

  autobiographical notes, xi-xii blitzed, 211, 221, 236, 405, 422, 423

  bronchitis, 66

  burial, 432, 490

  catapult, skill with, 345

  character, ix-x, xii, xiv, xv, 31, 69, 195-6, 405, 433

  diagnosis, 107, 146-7, 377

  family saga, 174

  fishing, 75, 251, 282, 314, 320, 323, 352, 363, 389, 406, 413, 416, 422, 431, 445, 450, 462, 490

  funeral, 432, 490

  illness, xiii, 66, 98, 135, 142, 143, 144, 146, 168, 169, 243, 299, 357, 381, 382, 387, 388, 393, 394, 396, 399, 402, 416, 433, 438, 445, 449, 449, 466

  'John Freeman', 221

  lack of glamour, 177

  making ammunition, 312-3

  marriage, 66, 307, 490

  new clothes, 462

  new will, 274, 466

  not Russophobe, 275

  over-pessimistic, 173,

  passport renewal, 462

  re-marriage, 307-8, 367, 478, 484, 487, 489, 490

  reviewing, 16, 63, 68, 83, 178, 217, 242, 251, 255, 295, 327, 377, 379, 383, 426; book reviews not indexed serial writing, 52, 53

  shoe purchases/sizes, 329, 330, 333, 334, 336, 341, 353, 367, 369

  smell, 5, 60, 85, 86, 118, 121, 267-9, 268, 403, 420

  streptomycin, 375, 386, 387, 388, 390, 390, 391, 393, 397, 398, 399, 407, 433, 434, 434-5, 436, 443, 459, 461, 462, 465

  superstition, x, 11, 23, 181

  time-table, 50

  treatment, 103, 110, 306, 368, 370, 371, 375, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 384, 393, 398, 400, 408, 431, 433, 434-5, 438, 439, 443-4, 482, 486

  'Trotskyist prejudices', 271; and see 31

  'two wasted years', 116

  voice, 82, 305

  wants child, 177

  war correspondent, xv, 215, 221, 243, 305

  war-work, 174, 175

  wounded, 79, 98, 305

  'Orwell and the Stinkers', 267-9

  O'Shaughnessy, Catherine Mary, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 259

  O'Shaughnessy, Eileen: see Blair, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, Gwen, 519; L: 377, 465; 72, 146, 161, 162, 165, 188, 221, 238, 239, 248, 249, 255, 258, 259, 261, 263, 317, 433

  O'Shaughnessy, Laurence (Eric), 519; L: from Eileen, 76; 66, 68, 70, 71, 79, 96, 98, 122, 149, 179, 189

  O'Shaughnessy, Laurence (son of above), 98, 146, 148 162, 247, 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 258, 259

  O'Shaughnessy, Marie, 519; L: from Eileen, 71; 66, 67

  Ostermilk, 253, 254, 256, 259, 419, 421

  Oughton, Maurice, 53, 54

  Our Mutual Friend, 36

  Out of the Night, 356

  Ovseenko, Vladimir Antonov, 91, 93

  Owen, Robert, 403, 404

  Oxford, 65, 70, 75, 97, 251, 271

  by-election, 136, 136, 145

  pacifism, 94, 190, 192, 207, 395; and see PPU

  'Pacifism and War', 213

  Pakistan, 102, 455

  Palestine, 317, 394, 411, 470

  pamphlet collection, 288, 289, 404

  paper shortage, 175, 225, 229, 230, 240, 256, 281, 283, 340, 344, 382, 394, 403

  'Parental Ode to My Son, A', 451

  Paris, xi, 3, 37, 38, 40, 41, 55, 67, 69, 118, 173, 221, 243, 244, 246, 246, 250, 255, 261, 263, 273, 274, 281, 291, 292, 294, 298, 304, 341, 384, 401, 410, 445, 489; and see Down and Out in Paris and London Parker, Buck, 75, 76

  Parratt, Nancy, 519; L: to Orwell 488; 488

  Partisan Review, 200, 201, 202, 206, 223, 335, 400, 439, 450, 457

  Partisan Review Award, 476

  P.A.S. drug, 434, 434, 436, 439

  Passchendaele, 115

  Pathe, Odile, 297, 301

  Pauker, Ana, 458, 459

  pay award, 1945, 245

  Payne, Robert, 461-2

  Peace News, 159, 201

  P[eace] P[ledge] U[nion], 94, 97, 158, 159, 237

  Pearson, Hesketh, 448, 449, 450, 452

  Peguy, Charles, 404, 413, 414, Pekin, 215, 477

  PEN Conference, 346, 347

  Penguin Books, L: 211; 139, 140, 140, 150, 162, 170, 234, 308, 328, 340, 342, 396, 401

  Penrose, Roland, 164, 165

  People's Convention, 190, 191, 455

  Perpignan, 166

  Perriam, Miss, 140, 167

  Persia, 369; see Teheran petrol rationing, 391, 391, 393, 397

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 488

  Phillips, William, L: 476; 229

  phthisis, 107, 108, 110, 146-7

  Pickford's, 299,308, 309, 422, 462

  pickle-jar aquarium, 16

  Picture Post, 200; 145, 178, 199, 245, 286, 328

  picture restoration, 417, 422, 423, 479, 487

  'Pig': see Eileen Blair, pig bought/slaughtered, 397, 416, 420, 425, 485

  Pigling Bland, 281

  Pilate, Pontius, 325, 326

  Pioneer, The, 102

  Pitter, Ruth, 34, 35

  Pivert, Marceau, 83, 85

  Place of the Lion, The, 483

  Platt-Mills, John, 463, 464

  Plowman, Dorothy, 519;L: 191, 289; 115, 149, 156, 221, 290

  Plowman, Max, 519; L: 11; 105, 134, 149, 156, 159, 192, 200, 290

  Plowman, Piers, 192, 192, 290, 291

  Plymouth bombed, 183

  Poland/Polish, 122, 246, 267, 272, 292, 303, 304, 355, 382, 445-6, 454

  Polish Trial, 264-6, 266

  Warsaw Uprising, 330

  Polanyi, Michael, 354, 355

  Polemic, 33, 284, 294, 296, 301, 305, 319, 323, 329, 330, 332, 334, 341, 353, 354, 400, 456

  police, 21, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 93, 109, 117, 153, 173, 190, 198, 199, 301, 312 322

  Politics, 224, 284, 328, 330, 331, 333, 334-5, 335, 341, 353, 394, 400, 402, 423, 423

  Politics & Letters, 399, 400, 419, 439

  'Politics and the English Language', 281, 330

  'Politics vs Literature', 281, 320, 323, 331

  Pollitt, Harry, 74, 75, 85, 87

  poltergeists, x, 181

  Pons, Jean, 55, 55

  poodle: see Marx Popham, Anne, 519; L: 293, 307, 321, 322

  Popular Army, 91

  popular culture, ix, 176, 223, 225

  Popular Front, 88, 151, 153, 176

  Porteous, Hugh Gordon, 338, 339

  Portrait and the Anti-Semite, 419

  Possenti, Umberto, 46

  Possev, 272, 423, 480, 480

  Possible Worlds, 19

  Postman Always Rings Twice, The, 442

  potato ration, 385; and see xiv, 176

  Potter, Beatrix, 281

  Potts, Paul, xiv, 268, 315, 315, 316, 470, 471

  POUM, the, 79, 80, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 108-9, 137, 162

  suppression of, 81, 83, 84, 91—3, 99-100

  Powell, Anthony, 519; L: 262, 367, 411, 475; 368, 391

  Powell, Lady Violet, 520; 263

  Prayer Book: see Book of Common Prayer praying circle, 159

  press, secret, 154, 163, 164

  Preston Hall Sanatorium, 32, 102, 103, 107, 110, 134, 146, 300

  'Prevention of Literature, The', 275, 281, 347

  prices: equivalents, xviii, 73, 245

  Priest Island, 255

  Priestley, J.B., 199, 200, 205, 408

  'Principles of Newspeak'
, 435, 436

  printing press, secret, 163

  prison, 162, 184, 190, 292, 356

  Pritchard, Joyce, 222, 255

  Pritt, D.N., 190, 191, 275, 463, 464, 470

  propaganda, 24, 75, 176, 187, 189, 195, 204, 207, 210, 212, 216, 270, 310, 349, 358, 453, 455, 457-8, 480, 480

  prospect of war, 120, 123, 126

  Protestantism, 16, 242

  pseudonym, choosing, 14, 22, 48, 204, 298, 356, 460, 462

  Psmith in the City, 253, 256

  Pulleyne, Collett Cresswell, 17, 18, 20

  Purple Land, The, 409

  Quakenbruck, 302, 303-4

  Queen, H.M., 283

  Radio 3 (also as C and Third Programme), 196, 326

  'Raffles and Miss Blandish', 221, 223, 224, 224, 241

  Raffles Museum, 35, 61

  Ragg, T. Murray, 202

  Rahr, Lew, 480

  Rahv, Philip, 520; L: 300; 476

  Raimbaud (a hunchback), 301

  Raimbault, Rene-Noel, 520; 38, 44, 45, 54; 38, 43, 54, 55

  death of daughter, 54

  rape, 10

  rationing, 115, 176, 177, 314, 323, 325, 382, 385, 399, 452, 452, 466

  'Ravensden', 255

  Read, Herbert, 520; L:153, 163; 230, 231, 231, 382

  Redcliffe-Maude, Baron, 7, 8, 8

  Reed, John, 355

  Rees, Lady, L: 156; 157

  Rees, Richard, 520; L: 317, 436, 440, 448, 451, 456, 459, 462, 467, 469, 474, 483, 484, 486; x, 23, 50, 51, 57, 58, 59, 76, 82, 98, 124, 157, 158, 162, 192, 212, 274, 289, 290, 318, 339, 366, 388, 415, 433, 437, 441, 449, 465, 482, 482

  'Reflections on Gandhi', 101, 400

  Rendall, R.A., 197

  'Reprintable Essays', 456, 457

  Reuther, Walter, 402, 404

  Revolt!, 163, 165

  Reynal, Eugene, L: 385, 225, 289

  Reynolds, Reginald, 407

  Rhine, J.B., 441

  Rhine, River, 251, 260, 311

  Rhondda, Lady, 24, 25

  Rice, Elmer, 61

  Richards, Frank (Charles Hamilton), 177, 178, 426

  Richards, Marie-Louise, 426, 426

  Richards, Vernon, 520; 165, 426, 426

  Riddell, George, 33, 35

  Ridley, Edie, 125

  Road to Wigan Pier, The, 31, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 65, 65, 68, 68, 69, 70-1, 73, 76, 80, 85, 98, 409

  Robbery under Law, 448

  Roberti, Jacques, 15

  Roberts, Cecil, 411, 412

  Roberts, Mr, 483

  Robertson, 258

  Rock Pool, The, 65

  Rodden, John, ix

  Rollball pen, 389

  Roman Catholicism, ix, xi, 13, 17, 18, 84, 286, 404, 410, 414, 401

  Rome, 287, 288

  Room 101, ix, 197, 476

  Rose, Fred, 356

  Rose, Jim, 416, 417, 425

  Rossborough, Revd., 158

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 448, 451

  Rossetti: His Life and Work, 451

  Roughing It, 34, 38, Routledge & Sons, L: 202; 230, 231

  Rovira, Jose, 246

  R[oyal] A[rmy] M[edical] C[orps], 122, 122, 127, 441

  Royston, 290

  Rubinstein, Harold, 47, 47

  'Rudyard Kipling', 224

  rum, 351, 440, 449

  Runciman, Steven, 520; L: 6

  Rushbrook Williams, L.F., 520; L: 216; L: from Laurence Brander, 208; 195, 197, 216

  Russell, Bertrand, 24, 43, 164, 165, 285, 305, 334, 354, 427, 427, 440, 441, 448, 449

  Russell, John, 489, 490

  Russia: see USSR

  Russian Enigma, 355, 356

  Sahni, Balraj, 521; 195

  St Andrews and Jesmond Cemetery, 261

  'St Andrew's Day', 49

  St Cyprian's School, 3, 5, 145, 145

  St Felix School for Girls, 50, 52, 52