George Well's Love Letters

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Friday, March 13, 2009, 12:37

It seems that the old love letters are flying its way to the computer generation. Next in the line is the love letters written by the famous writer George Orwell. Twenty handwritten letters including missives to his secret lover are expected to fetch more than 40,000 pounds when they are auctioned by Bonhams later this month.

The letters are written under Orwell"s real name Eric Arthur Blair. They reveal his love triangle between Jaques and Collings, when the author began a secret relationship with Miss Jaques, the girlfriend of Mr Collings. These letters are the most revealing documents in existence. They also reveal Orwell"s interest in the lower classes.

The letters are addressed to Dennis Collings and Eleanor Jaques, two of his closest friends during the early 1930s when he was living in Southwold, Suffolk.

The letters, written between 1931 and 1933 when Orwell was struggling to get his work published. In auction terms, this is a major literary event, not least because Orwell letters rarely come onto the market, and a correspondence is unprecedented.