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Orwell's letters up for auction

They document the time in the early 1930s when Orwell was staying with his parents in Southwold, Suffolk, after he returned from Burma.

The letters are to his friends in the town, Eleanor Jacques and Dennis Collings, and one subject he discusses is the writing of his first two books.

They are being auctioned later by Bonhams Auctioneers in London.

Alongside the letters, copies of Orwell's books inscribed to the Collings family are also to be auctioned.

Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 and is best-known for writing Animal Farm, published in 1945, and Nineteen Eighty Four, published four years later...

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