Collis, Maurice — Tls to Geoffrey Robinson Declining Invitation

Maidenhead, October 25, 1954. 1 p. Maurice Collis (1889-1973), historian, biographer, and novelist, served in Burma, 1912-36, on much the same basis as did Orwell, became in 1930 District Magistrate, Rangoon. After his retirement from the Indian Civil Service, he became, like Orwell, a writer, achieving considerable success. Trials in Burma, an autobiography, was reviewed by Orwell in The Listener; Orwell also reviewed his account of Ma Saw, She Was A Queen, in the Manchester Evening News. With tape residue along left front margin. From a collection of letters and papers amassed by illustrator and painter Geoffrey Robinson during his years as a publisher with Rockliff, John Baker, Maclaren, et al. .