Chapters (82)
- Cover
- Brand Page
- Orwell in Spain
- Orwell in Spain
- Introduction
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgements
- Orwell’s Journey to Spain, December 1936
- Extract from ‘As I Please’, 42 [The Journey to Spain]
- Jennie Lee to Margaret M. Goalby, 23 June 1950: Orwell’s Arrival in Barcelona
- Orwell in Spain, December 1936
- Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore
- ‘British Author with the Militia’
- Eileen Blair to her mother
- To Eileen Blair
- Extract from letter from Eileen Blair to Leonard Moore
- Eileen Blair to Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy
- Extract from letter to Victor Gollancz
- Orwell’s Wound
- To Cyril Connolly
- Eileen Blair to Dr Laurence (‘Eric’) O’Shaughnessy
- Escape from Spain
- BARCELONA 13TH JULY, 1937
- Charles Doran
- Homage to Catalonia
- X
- ‘Spilling the Spanish Beans’
- Eileen Blair to John McNair
- George Kopp to Dr Laurence O’Shaughnessy
- Translation of letter written in Spanish by George Kopp to Lieutenant-Colonel Burillo,7 Chief of Police, Barcelona
- George Kopp to Eileen Blair
- Review of The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau; Volunteer in Spain by John Sommerfield
- To Rayner Heppenstall
- ‘Eye-Witness in Barcelona’
- Abstracts of Reports on the Spanish Civil War in the Daily Worker and News Chronicle, 1936–7
- To Amy Charlesworth
- To Charles Doran
- Unpublished Response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War
- To Geoffrey Gorer
- Review of Red Spanish Notebook by Mary Low and Juan Brea; Heroes of the Alcazar by R. Timmermans; Spanish Circus by Martin Armstrong
- To H. N. Brailsford
- Review of Storm Over Spain by Mairin Mitchell; Spanish Rehearsal by Arnold Lunn; Catalonia Infelix by E. Allison Peers; Wars of Ideas in Spain by Josée Castillejo; Invertebrate Spain by Josée Ortega y Gasset
- H. N. Brailsford to Orwell
- To H. N. Brailsford
- Review of The Tree of Gernika by G. L. Steer; Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler
- To the Editor, Time and Tide
- To Raymond Mortimer
- To Stephen Spender
- To Geoffrey Gorer
- ‘Notes* on the Spanish Militias
- To the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement
- Sir Richard Rees to Orwell
- To the Editor, The Listener
- Review of Spain’s Ordeal1 by Robert Sencourt; Franco’s Rule [anonymous]
- Review of The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek1
- Review of Searchlight on Spain by the Duchess of Atholl1
- To the Editor, Manchester Guardian
- To Yvonne Davet
- To Raymond Postgate
- Orwell made two copies of this summary of the article in La Flèche of 14 October 1938, by L.-P. Foucaud.
- Review of The Church in Spain, 1737-1937 by E. Allison Peers; Crusade in Spain by Eoin O’Dujfy1
- To Frank Jellinek
- ‘Release of George Kopp’
- ‘Caesarean Section in Spain
- To Yvonne Davet
- Review of Hotel in Flight by Nancy Johnstone
- Review of The Last Days of Madrid by S. Casado, translated by Rupert Croft-Cooke; Behind the Battle by T. C. Worsley
- Review of The Spanish Dilemma by E. Allison Peers; A Key to Victory: Spain by Charles Duff
- Extract from War-time Diary
- Review of The Forge by Arturo Barea,1 translated and with an introduction by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell2
- Extract from letter to Partisan Review
- Extract from BBC Weekly News Review for India, 22 [Comparison with the Spanish Civil War]
- ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War’ [1942?]
- Proposed BBC Broadcast on the Spanish Civil War
- Review of Spain in Eclipse, 1937–1943 by E. Allison Peers; Behind the Spanish Mask by Lawrence Dundas
- Extract from ‘As I Please’, 10 [How the lie becomes truth]
- ‘The Eight Years of War: Spanish Memories’
- Review of An Interlude in Spain by Charles d’Ydewalle, translated by Eric Sutton
- Review of The Clash by Arturo Barea1
- Orwell’s Pamphlet Collection
- A summary of letters from and to David Astor, 4 and 5
- Further Reading
10. Buenaventura Durruti [CNT-FAI, Barcelona, 1937] (Tr) Box 3 (70) CNT: ‘Syndicalist unions controlled by the Anarchists’; FAI: ‘an actual Anarchist organisation’; Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, pp. 174, 181 [VI/195, 203].
11. Spain – Anarchism [Anarcho-Syndicalist Union (CNT), (An) Box 4 (37) 1937]
12. Social Reconstruction in Spain [Gaston] (Leval) [Spain and (Tr) Box 4 (38) the World, 1938] French anarchist who went to Moscow in 1921 with a Spanish delegation led by Andrés Nin, and wrote on the Spanish Civil War. See Thomas, 67, 117, 1025. Orwell wrote ‘Level’ in the manuscript but typescript has ‘Gaston Leval’.
13. Catholics & the Civil War in Spain [National Council of (LP) Box 5 (10) Labour, 1936]
14. A Catholic Looks at Spain [S. Gurrea; Labour Publications (LP) Box 5(11) Dept., 1937]
15. Tempête sur l’Espagne [L’Homme Réel, 1936, 3 francs] (LS) Box 6 (6) This is inscribed ‘Henry Swanzy, Paris 1936’. Swanzy was one of Orwell’s colleagues at the BBC; see 845, n. 2.
16. Impressions of Franco’s Spain (J. R. Vega) 2 [United (LP) Box 6 (9) Editorial Ltd, 1943]
17. Franco’s ‘Neutrality’ & British Policy [UDC, 1944] (LS) Box 6 (13)
18. Spain: the moral touchstone of Europe (C. Duff) 2 (LS) Box 6 (23) [Gollancz, 1944]
19. Romancero de la Guerra Civil (Series I) [verse; Madrid (LS) Box 7 (6) Gov.t, 1936]
1. Kurt Landau, Austrian socialist, was to die ‘in mysterious circumstances’, as did a number of other international sympathizers of the POUM; see Thomas, 706.
A summary of letters from and to David Astor, 4 and 5
March 1949
On 4 March 1949, David Astor asked Orwell, then in the Cotswold Sanatorium, Cranham, whether he would contribute an article for the Observer on the tenth anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War. Alternatively, Orwell could suggest who might be approached to write one or perhaps two articles. Orwell replied the following day to say he would rather not write an article because, owing to illness, he had not started any work yet. Among those whom he suggested were Franz Borkenau and Arturo Barea. On 15 March, Astor told Orwell that the Observer was trying to contact Borkenau (then in Germany at Marburg University). See 3562, XX/54–5.