Journalism took a heavy toll of Orwell in the first months of 1946. Despite this unremitting pressure, he produced a major sequence of articles on 'The Intellectual Revolt'. He wrote 1 of his finest short essays, 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'. He reviewed Zamyatin's We, wrote 2 radio plays for the BBC, The Voyage of the Beagle, & a version of 'Red Riding Hood' for Children's Hour, & a pamphlet for the British Council, British Cookery; these 3 are printed here for the first time. The complex history of 'How the Poor Die' is unravelled, as is the problem posed by his passports giving his date of birth incorrectly, something that would prove significant in the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell renewed contact with Yvonne Davet; he corresponded with Ihor Szewczenko; he tried to get Victor Serge's memoirs published in English and, with Arthur Koestler, to expose Soviet responsibility for the massacre of the Poles by arranging for a translation of Joseph Czapski's Souvenirs de Starobielsk to be published. Despite all this, Orwell did get away to Jura with his son, Richard. He was able to relax & even fish, as his Domestic Diary (published for the first time) shows; & he wrote fifty pages of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ....(continued here)