I wonder who your young man is now ? I have thought of you so often—have you thought about me, I wonder ? I know it’s indiscreet to write such things in letters, but you’ll be clever & burn this, won’t you ?
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), in a letter to Lydia Jackson 1 March 1939 in: “George Orwell. A Life in Letters” Selected and annotated by Peter Davison















