Letter from Rayner Heppenstall to Orwell

Having not heard anything from Orwell since his last letter, Heppenstall is concerned that he has upset him by not visiting Jura over the summer. Despite previously congratulating Orwell on his literary success and making the observation that he can now do less journalism, Heppenstall also chases Orwell about his promise to write a radio programme for the autumn.

Read the reply to this letter.

Heppenstall produced a dramatised series called 'Imaginary Conversations' from the late 1940s to the 1950s. These often involved two protagonists on opposite sides of well-known disagreements meeting and conversing about their differences.