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‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive
(www.theguardian.com)
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Such a shame. And it will of course be rich idiots buying up this stuff and they'll be completely oblivious about what Orwell would have thought of them.
Or they bought it because they did.
I wonder if internet archive would be able to purchase some of these...
That would be the job of national archives. In the past, writers or publishers would just have offered these papers for free to the relevant institutions. But these days everything is seen as a profit opportunity.