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Cambridge, 28 October 1958. Letter. Creases from mailing, otherwise Near Fine. A thoughtful AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on both sides of 7" x 9" King's College letterhead to Professor [Rex] Warner. In part: "My glimpse of you yesterday reminded me that I had never ... thanked you for your lecture.... I am very glad that you cared to quote me, and -- still more -- to quote Dickinson. But it is a difficult wicket. I fear that sensitivity, the arts, and all that, can only be defended on the grounds that they are good in themselves. I don't write this high-mindedly. I only wish it was otherwise. The bait we hold out (I [?] changing my form of sport) is that the life of the imagination & the belief that the world is interesting, may in the long run make society and the individuals in it more comfortable. I doubt it."
Autograph Letter Signed by Forster, E. M - 1951
by Forster, E. M
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Cambridge, 1951 Autograph letter signed. On cream King's College letterhead, written in dark brown ink to recto and verso. A near fine letter with only a few creases at folds. This letter is Forster's reply to Dr. Alex Comfort, a medical doctor and advocate for pacifist and anarchic causes. Dr. Comfort was a WWII conscientious objector and signatory of the Author's World Peace Appeal in 1951. Like Forster, Dr. Comfort went on to become a sponsor of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1957. In this letter, Forster replies regarding an upcoming meeting of the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace in Russia, to which Britain was expected to send delegates. Forster expresses his disapproval of the meeting, citing the possible presence of Soviet sympathizers. He offers three pieces of advice to Dr. Comfort regarding how negative perceptions of the meeting might be abated. Dr. Comfort earned his medical degree at Cambridge at Trinity College. He is the author of Peace and Disobedience (1946), and the nonfiction manual The Joy of Sex (1972), for which he became well-known. . Near Fine.
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("E.M. Forster") in black ink on his Station Gomshall, West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking letterhead, June 22, 1944. 7" x 9"; 2 pages (l leaf recto and verso). Fine. To writer/actress Jeanne de Casalis Dear Miss de Casalis: Superb letter regarding making a film of his novel Howard's End. In part: ". . .I have found a slightly worthier edition of Howard's End*, which you will please accept.I was most interested in what you and Anthony Asquith said about filming the thing. My own instinct is that it wouldn't be suitable - only an instinct, for I know nothing about film. Howard's End is, for good and for evil, a literary book - much more so that A Passage to India. . .it is pro (a certain sort of) German: surely a bit of a snag in these days. . ." *Howard's End was not filmed until 1992.
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