From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > Joe Fineman wrote:   
   >> I have gotten around to looking up Orwell's complete works at the   
   >> library.  The first nine volumes are merely definitive editions of   
   >> his books, which I have already read, but the remaining eleven are   
   >> an attempt to print everything else he ever wrote, and so   
   >> constitute an expansion of the four volumes that I bought 40 years   
   >> ago & have read to a frazzle.  In Vol. 10 is a letter in which   
   >> Orwell describes taking a walk in a nearby cemetery, Kensal Rise,   
   >> to get into a gloomy mood for writing, but finding the epitaphs   
   >> hilariously counterproductive.  A footnote explains that Kensal   
   >> Rise is "an error for Kensall Green".  I thought that an unlikely   
   >> error for a neighbor to make, and a likely one for an Englishman to   
   >> suspect (Kensall Green being a very well-known 19th-century London   
   >> cemetery & a stock literary allusion to death).  Sure enough,   
   >> Google instantly reveals that there is also Kensal Rise Cemetery,   
   >> not far away.  Google does *not* reveal a Web site or email address   
   >> to which addenda & corrigenda for this monumental work may be   
   >> addressed.   
   >   
   > You might try writing Professor Davison in care of Random House UK.   
      
   Not worth it for such a trivial correction (tho it might at least give   
   him the pleasure of pointing out that I misspelled "Kensal Green"   
   twice).  If there had been a Web site, I could have done the job in a   
   minute.   
      
   I once did write a letter to Bernard Crick pointing out a couple of   
   substantial errors (one of them grotesque) in his biography of   
   Orwell.  It was not acknowledged.   
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