A Life in Letters
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