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Legend [d]:: 62. Langford Court, St. John's Wood, where Orwell lived after he joined the BBC[g]. (Photo: W. J. West); 63. The Barcelona Restaurant today, then a haunt of Spanish Civil War veterans and one of Orwell's favourite meeting places. (Photo: W. J. West); 64. Senate House, Malet Street, wartime headquarters of the Ministry of Information and model for the 'Ministry of Truth' in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It was visible to Orwell from Langford Court. (Photo: W. J. West); 65. A wartime Home Guard exercise of the kind Orwell strongly supported. The figure fifth from the right looks remarkably like Orwell. (Photo: Hulton Picture Library); 66. An autograph letter from Forster to Orwell; 67. The writer Julian Symons, a friend of Orwell's in his last yearrs. (Photo: John Vickers. J. Symons archive); 68. Arthur Koestler: Orwell's friend and fellow campaigner against the drift towards totalitarianism. (BBC Hulton Picture Library); 69. V. S. Pritchett, who wrote of Orwell that he was an Englishman "who went native in his own country". (Photo: Howard Coster. National Portrait Gallery); 70. The ever-popular Donald McGill postcards which Orwell collected. In his essay 'The art of Donald McGill', he described them as "a sort of sub-world ofsmacked bottom and scrawny mothers-in-law which is a part of western European consciousness"; 71. Postcard of Donald McGill; 72. The American writer Jack London. Twenty-five years before Orwell he had disguised himself as a tramp in London's East End in order to write The People of the Abyss. (BBC Hulton Picture Library); 73. Joseph Conrad: an important influence on Orwell who was planning a major essay on the writer when he died. (Painting by Walter Tittle, 1924. National Portrait Gallery)