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E. M. Forster collection
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RC0733
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1931-1946 (Creation)
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14 letters
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Biographical history
E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster was a British novelist. He was born in London on 1 January 1879 and educated at Tonbridge School and King's College, Cambridge. His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, was published in 1905; one of his best novels, A Passage to India, which won both the Femina Vie-Heureuse and James Tait Black prizes, was published in 1924. Forster was awarded the Order of Merit on his ninetieth birthday.
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The collection consists of letters to Reginald Popham Nicholson (1874-1950) and his wife, Mary Elinor Nicholson. Nicholson was a career foreign service officer. After his retirement he became the secretary of the Royal African Society and editor of its journal from 1932-1938 and then served in the Red Cross Foreign Relations Department, 1941-1943.
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Collection was purchased in March 1982 from Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles.
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RC0733
