9 “it isn’t a book I would gamble on” – Orwell letter to Warburg, December 21, 1948, CW XIX, 3511, p. 486.
10 “made me spew” – Orwell letter to Brenda Salkeld, August 1934, CW X, 204, p. 347.
11 “was a good idea” – Orwell letter to Leonard Moore, 3 October 1934, CW X, 209, p. 351.
12 “any life when viewed” – “Benefit of Clergy”, CW XVI, 2481, p. 234.
13 “that I was idling” – Orwell, “Notes from Orwell’s Last literary Notebook”, CW XX, 3725, p. 204.
14 “schoolboyish sensationalism” – Times Literary Supplement, June 10, 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 256.
15 “This is amongst the most terrifying” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XIX, 3505, p. 479.
16 “I cannot but think” – Ibid., p. 481.
17 “Orwell has done what Wells never did” and “ought to be shot” – David Farrer’s Report on Nineteen Eighty-Four, December 15, 1948, CW XIX, 3506, p. 482.
18 “as though it were a thriller” – Orwell letter to Roger Senhouse, December 26, 1948, CW XIX, 3513, p. 487.
19 “We hope you might be interested” – Eugene Reynal letter to J. Edgar Hoover, April 22, 1949.
20 “mucked about” – Orwell letter to Leonard Moore, March 17, 1949, CW XX, 3575, p. 67.
21 Warburg estimated– See Warburg, p. 110.
22 “No wonder everyone hates us so” – Orwell, Diary, April 17, 1949, CW XX, 2602, p. 92.
23 “Don’t think I am making” – Orwell letter to Warburg, May 16, 1949, CW XX, 3626, p. 116.
24 “exhausted Dickens disastrously” – Orwell, Review of Dickens: His Character, Comedy and Career by Hesketh Pearson, New York Times Book Review, May 15, 1949, CW XX, 3625, p. 115.
25 “about as good a novelist” – Notes for “Evelyn Waugh”, 1949, CW XX, 3586, p. 79.
26 “a sort of grown-upness” – Orwell letter to Wiadomsci, February 25, 1949, CW XX, 3553, p. 47.
27 “They would get hold of five kilograms” – Ibid., p. 95.
28 “a novel of character” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on His Visit to Orwell, June 14, 1949, CW XX, 3645, p. 132.