Charles Andrew Orr Papers
Period 1938, 1943, 1992-1997
Total size 0.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted
Biography
Born in North Branch, Lapeer Co., Michigan, USA 1906, died in Geneva, Switzerland 1999; journalist and academic from the USA; worked in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War; after his escape to Paris he returned to the USA in 1939.
Content
Photocopies of typescripts of Charles Orr's memories of George Orwell, Leon Trotsky and the Spanish Civil War; copy of Lois Orr's unpublished 'Spain 1936-1937. A short history of the Spanish revolution' 1943; copy of Charles Andrew Orr's unpublished 'Recollections of Adventures Abroad' 1993-1997; photocopies of some letters to Charles Orr 1938, 1992-1993.
Secondary creator
Orr, Lois.Location of originals
Most of the originals at the Labadie collection of the University of Michigan