Comprises materials relating to book proposals by Orel that did not reach the publication stage. These materials include correspondence, outlines, and writing samples on the following topics: Thomas Hardy's friendships, a Kipling encyclopedia, a World War II diary, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Millington Synge, W. B. Yeats, Sir Walter Scott, British literature anthology, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, a British Town and Country, a drama anthology, and a British poetry anthology.