The purchase by UCL, with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Friends of the Nations' Libraries, prevents the historic correspondence from being sold to private collectors piecemeal. The documents, bought for £154,000 from Jonkers Books and Peter Harrington Rare Books, will now be preserved, cared for and publicly appreciated as a valuable piece of Britain’s cultural heritage. By the publication of Keep the Aspidistra Flying in 1936, the letters show Orwell growing