To Frederic Warburg
To Frederic Warburg
23 August 1946 - Barnhill, Isle of Jura, Argyllshire
Dear Fred,1
Thanks for your letter. I’m sorry you can’t come - however, another year, perhaps. We have now made ourselves reasonably comfortable here, and I have had a good rest and I think stored up a considerable reserve of health and energy. I have not, of course, done much work, and did not come here intending to do much. I have literally started another book, but haven’t got far with it, as I only started working again in July.2 God knows when it will be finished, but some time in 1947, I hope. By the time I get back to London I hope to have done a quarter of the rough draft, which would be enough to encourage me to go on during my odd moments on the treadmill. I found that it was quite impossible to start anything while buried under weekly journalism. I think it will work out quite a long book, and it is a complicated one to organise, so don’t expect me to be very prompt with it.
Richard is very well and is beginning to talk a little. Please give my love to Roger. I expect to be back in London about October 12th.
Yours
George
Frederic Warburg (1898 - 1981), British publisher and founder of Secker & Warburg. Warburg published Animal Farm in 1945 and would go on to publish Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Orwell had begun work on Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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