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189 “Death destroys a man”: Forster, Howards End, 236.
189 “The mater is a misfortune”: EMF to FB, June 17, 1922, KCC.
190 “When I began the book”: EMF to Masood, Sept. 27, 1922, KCC; quoted in Furbank, “Introduction” to A Passage to India (Everyman’s), xix–xx.
190 “Pathos, piety, courage”: Forster, A Passage to India, 140.
190 “the only person to whom”: EMF to Masood, May 23, 1923, KCC; quoted in Furbank, “Introduction” to A Passage to India (Everyman’s), xix–xx.
191 “he never possessed it”: Forster, “West Hackhurst: A Surrey Ramble,” in Jeffrey M. Heath, ed., Creator as Critic, 111.
191 “There was . . . no gas”: Ibid.
191 “I have to visit”: EMF to Carrington, June 27, 1924, HRC.
192 “The Hogarth Press are”: EMF to FB, July 7, 1922, KCC.
192 “I have just written”: Ibid.
192 “I may show it”: Ibid.
192 “exactly what I want”: EMF to Sassoon, Dec. 12, 1923, quoted in Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:119.
193 “among the elect”: TEL to EMF, Feb. 20, 1924, copy at KCC.
193 “I’d very much like”: TEL to EMF, April 6, 1924, copy at KCC.
193 “one of the funniest things”: TEL to EMF, April 30, 1924, copy at KCC.
193 “I am glad you wrote”: EMF to TEL, May 3, 1924, KCC.
194 “I’ve put the last words”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, II:289, Jan. 23, 1924.
194 “Talking of Proust”: Ibid., II:269, Sept. 18, 1923.
194 “In the best love making”: EMF, Sex Diary, n.d., c. 1935, KCC.
195 “I don’t see what”: EMF, Locked Diary, Aug. 12, 1919, KCC.
195 “I am not at all”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, II:268, Sept. 18, 1923.
195 Reviewers welcomed his novel: Sylvia Lynd, “A Great Novel at Last,” Time and Tide, June 20, 1924, in Gardner, Critical Heritage, 215.
195 In India and in England: EMF, Locked Diary, Aug. 31, 1934, KCC.
195 “Famous wealthy, miserable”: EMF, Locked Diary, Jan. 2, 1925, KCC.
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196 “Hearing him yet”: J. R. Ackerley, “Ghosts,” quoted in Parker, Ackerley, 51. The poem was published in the London Mercury in April 1922.
196 “the horror, beauty, depth”: EMF to JRA, April 26, 1922; Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:24.
197 Like many survivors: Ackerley, My Father and Myself, 74.
197 “guilty and frustrated”: Ibid.
197 “I don’t quite like A.”: EMF, Locked Diary, Oct. 14, 1923, KCC.
198 “It was like a return”: EMF, Locked Diary, March 24, 1925, KCC.
198 “No personal relationships”: EMF, Locked Diary, May 23, 1923, KCC.
198 “some black blood”: EMF, Locked Diary, Oct. 2, 1924, KCC.
198 “She was a very nice woman”: EMF to FB, Oct. 24, 1924, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:65.
199 “he learned some strange”: EMF to JRA, n.d., early 1925, HRC.
199 “I had better have”: EMF to FB, Oct. 2, 1924, KCC.
199 “a queer ending”: EMF to JRA, Jan. 19, 1925, HRC.
199 “The visit was sticky”: Ibid.
199 “mere social behaving”: EMF to JRA, n.d., early 1925, HRC.
199 “Madame n’est pas sans soupçons”: EMF to JRA, July 20,1925, HRC.
199 “when the women went”: Welty, “The Life to Come,” 365.
200 “tatty pubs in Soho”: Ackerley, My Father and Myself, 134.
200 “Women have got out of hand”: Gardner, ed., Commonplace Book, n.d., c. 1930, 59–60.
200 “I have just discovered”: EMF to JRA, Oct. 17, 1924, HRC.
201 Sprott was bright: Carrington to Gerald Brenan, Dec. 18, 1921, in Garnett, ed., Carrington, 199.
201 “voice shooting up”: Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:118.
201 “I knew you were”: Parker, Ackerley, 109.
201 “a dreary nowhere”: EMF to Sprott, March 22, 1925, KCC.
202 “a statue of a Greek”: Parker, Ackerley, 103.
202 “[I]n this négligé”: Ackerley, My Father and Myself, 184.
202 “I do not think”: de Jongh, Not in Front of the Audience, 25.
202 The problem play was: Parker, Ackerley, 90.
203 “You see! Incest as well”: de Jongh, Not in Front of the Audience, 25.
203 “start . . . upon a long quest”: Ackerley, My Father and Myself, 123.
204 “I think you are”: EMF to JRA, Oct. 25, 1924, HRC.
204 “Proust seems to think”: EMF to JRA, Tuesday [n.d.], late Oct. 1924, HRC.
204 “It is curious”: EMF to JRA, n.d., early 1925, HRC.
204 At the bottom: Ibid.
204 “Hammersmith Broadway was the pleasure”: Daley, This Small Cloud, 92, 21.
204 An aficionado, Harry had unusual: Daley to Furbank, March 21, 1968.
205 “made him wonderfully loveable”: Ibid.
205 “gay and all embracing”: Daley, This Small Cloud, 135.
205 “purple suede shoes”: Parker, Ackerley, 110.
205 “scraped and pinched”: Daley, This Small Cloud, 114.
206 “as part of the excitement”: Ibid., 131.
206 “a billiard room”: Ibid., 86.
206 “In this cramped world”: Ibid., 90–91.
206 “laughed about as if [they were]”: Ibid., 101.
206 “One policeman regularly hoisted”: Ibid., 90.
206 A large, pudgy, and unprepossessing: Ibid., 112.
207 Morgan was head over heels: EMF to Sprott, Aug. 21, year obscured, KCC.
207 “steak and eggs and bacon”: Daley, This Small Cloud, 90.
207 “except for a few coster’s barrows”: Daley to Furbank, March 21, 1968.
207 “spoke my language”: Ibid.
207 “Nothing but the best”: Ibid.
207 “It is not my policy”: EMF to JRA, Oct. 17, 1927, HRC.
208 “Vicary cannot take”: EMF to FB, Sept. 19, 1924, KCC.
208 “heavenly . . . if heaven can be”: EMF to JRA, June 4, 1926, HRC.
208 “Don’t let anyone ‘spoil’”: EMF to JRA, Jan. 15, 1928, KCC.
208 “Tell Charles to arrive”: EMF to Sprott, Feb. 28, 1928, KCC.
208 “I have written to Charles”: EMF to Sprott, June 2, 1934, KCC.
208 “Do see that C. goes”: EMF to Sprott, Oct. 14, 1929, KCC.
209 “elderly man’s love”: EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1927, KCC.
209 “solid” and “independent of mother”: EMF, Locked Diary, July 12, 1926, KCC.
209 “an enormous boy”: EMF to Sprott, Sept. 15, 1928, KCC.
209 “not to feel intact”: EMF to Charles Mauron, April 6, 1930; Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:91–92.
209 “O, [the] celebrated author”: EMF to JRA, n.d., early 1925, HRC.
209 “could have an intellectual basis”: Ibid.
209 “Morgan’s friends hushed their voices”: Daley to Furbank, date obscured, March–April 1968.
209 “loom up on the reader”: Forster, “Notes on Maurice,” in Maurice, 218.
210 “the knowledge that I couldn’t”: EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1927, KCC.
210 “Those tickets cost 4/9”: EMF to Daley, July 18, 1926, quoted in Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:141.
210 “Don’t worry, old Morgan’s got plenty”: Daley to EMF, quoted ibid., 143.
211 “Don’t rebuke, don’t arguefy”: EMF to JRA, April 9, 1928, HRC.
211 “decayed morale or the natural”: EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1928, KCC.
211 “in old age, looked after”: EMF to JRA, quoted in Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:159. The letter dates from 1929.
211 “Coarseness and tenderness”: EMF, Locked Diary, March 24, 1925, KCC.
211 “superficial itch for intimacy”: EMF, Locked Diary, Oct. 24, 1923, KCC.
211 “Is a lie necessary?”: EMF to JRA, n.d.
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212 “signs of fertility”: EMF to JRA, June 22, 1926, HRC.
212 “1 Scotchman, 1 Colonial”: EMF to JRA, Dec. 15, 1926, HRC.
212 “If you want a permanent”: EMF to JRA, April 9, 1928, HRC.
212 “uncle in the clothes trade”: Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:186.
212 “I was 250 years old”: EMF to JRA, early Aug. 1929, HRC.
213 “is slowly dispatching him”: Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, May 19, 1926; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 266.
213 “T. E. liked to meet people”: Forster, “T. E. Lawrence,” in A. W. Lawrence, ed., T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 247.
213 “I wanted to read”: TEL to EMF, Sept. 8, 1927, in Malcolm Brown, ed., T. E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters, 368.
214 “an awful tease”: Forster, “T. E. Lawrence,” in A. W. Lawrence, ed., T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 247.
214 “did not like being touched”: Ibid., 248.
214 “forthcoming volume of stories”: EMF to TEL, Dec. 16, 1927, KCC.
214 “promises to be [my] last”: Ibid.
214 “the frail house of old”: Ibid.
214 “hanker at all after”: Ibid.
215 “intellectually null”: F. R. Leavis to Oliver Stallybrass, quoted in Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:144.
215 “Give us also the right”: Hall, The Well of Loneliness, 506.
215 “[the novel] is a seductive”: Sunday Express, Aug. 19, 1928.
216 “defendants have it in mind”: Home Office to Sir Archibald Bodkin, Oct. 22, 1928, National Archives DPP 1/92.
216 “sodomy & sapphism”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, III:193, Aug. 31, 1928.
216 “Soon we were telephoning”: Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, Aug. 30, 1928; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, III:520.
216 “Radclyffe scolds him”: Ibid.
216 “meritorious dull book”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, III:193, Aug. 31, 1928.
216 “disgusting: partly from conventions”: Ibid.
217 Hall’s book embraced: Ibid.
217 “Would you like to be converted”: Ibid.
217 “comic little letter”: Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, Sept. 8, 1928; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, III:530; Forster, “The New Censorship,” The Nation and Athenaeum, Sept. 1, 1928.
217 “What with being blackmailed”: EMF to Sprott, n.d., Nov. 1928, KCC.
217 “She swears I shan’t be”: EMF to JRA, Nov. 16, 1928, HRC.
218 “summoned for advice and sympathy”: EMF to Sprott, n.d., Nov. 1928, KCC.
218 “read the wrong book”: Ibid.
218 “I calmed down rather quickly”: Ibid.
218 “was always frightened”: Daley to Furbank, date obscured, 1968.
218 “‘Love’ seems hardly the right”: Daley, This Small Cloud, 135.
219 “I feel sickish”: EMF to JRA, Nov. 13, 1930, HRC.
219 “I don’t blame you”: EMF to JRA, Feb. 14, 1931, HRC.
219 “On Harry it is as easy”: EMF to JRA, Jan. 3, 1928, HRC.
219 “Hammersmith is a complete”: EMF to JRA, Jan. 5, 1928, HRC.
219 “I am so glad you are”: EMF to JRA, n.d., August [?] 1926, HRC.
219 “rather unhappy”: Carrington to Sprott, early March 1929, in Garnett, ed., Carrington, 405.
220 “something of . . . Mae West”: Ackerley, My Father and Myself, 20.
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221 “not really a reading man”: Daley to Furbank, April 12, 1968.
221 “amused protective kindness”: Daley to Furbank, date obscured, late March 1968.
222 “I must re-emphasise the need”: EMF to JRA, Jan. 14, 1931, HRC.
222 “I am quite sure”: EMF to Sprott, July 16, 1931; Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:105.
222 “fallen very violently”: Ibid.
222 “fayish”: LS to Roger Senhouse, April 21, 1931; Levy, ed., The Letters of Lytton Strachey, 642.
222 “a spiritual feeling”: EMF to Sprott, July 16, 1931; Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:105.
222 “Mr. Bucknam”: Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:167.
222 “found Policeman Bob”: Carrington to Sprott, summer 1931, KCC.
223 “completely unlike”: Forster, “Notes on Maurice,” in Maurice, 216.
223 “Bob was the man”: Daley to Furbank, March 21, 1968.
223 “lover and beloved”: EMF to Sprott, Oct. 4, 1932; Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:112.
223 “Bob, aged 5”: These entries, both from the Locked Diary, are undated, added to the verso sides of entries in 1909 and 1915.
224 “Olive”: Alexander, William Plomer, 231.
224 “unguardeed moment”: Furbank, E. M. Forster, II:178.
225 “John Lehmann is back”: EMF to Sprott, Sept. 21, 1933, KCC.
225 “At Duncan [Grant]’s show”: “Lilies,” VW to Quentin Bell, Dec. 21, 1933; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, V:262; “Bugger Boys,” The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, V:120, Nov. 30, 1937.
225 “youthful interest in everything”: Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (Abinger), 196.
225 “unreal”: Ibid., 197.
225 “chiefly occupied in saving”: Ibid.
225 “Mrs. Newman his bedmaker”: EMF to Malcolm Darling, Aug. 24, 1932, HRC.
226 “If he fails me”: EMF to JRA, Nov. 10, 1932, HRC.
226 “He must be made”: EMF to Sprott, Oct. 4, 1932, Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:112; EMF to Sprott, July 16, 1931, Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:105.
226 “We’ve got to go”: EMF to Sprott, Oct. 11, 1932, KCC.
226 “Yesterday when I went”: Ibid.
227 “When I cannot ‘get’”: EMF to Sprott, Oct. 4, 1932, Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:112.
227 “the greatest imaginative novelist”: Forster, “D. H. Lawrence,” Nation and Athenaeum, March 29, 1930.
227 “I have had such a shock”: EMF to Frieda Lawrence, March 4, 1930, Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:91.
228 “I continue to read”: EMF to JRA, Feb. 12, 1933, HRC.
228 “I wish I could”: EMF to JRA, Jan. 10, 1933, HRC.
228 “in the hope that”: Proctor, ed., “Introduction” to The Autobiography of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 9.
228 “My present feeling”: GLD to EMF, July 10, 1932, KCC.
229 “Unlike the green bird”: Forster, A Passage to India, 85.
229 “Although he was never”: Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 47.
229 “Devoted to [Ferdinand] Schiller”: Ibid., 63.
229 “I have seldom been”: Ibid., 56.
229 “I think that few”: Ibid., 58.
230 “Mephistopheles . . . puts his head”: Ibid., 199.
230 “rested on the constancy”: Forster on Carpenter, in Beith, ed., Edward Carpenter, 81.
230 “interest . . . the next generation”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, V:314, Sept. 2, 1940.
230 “Bob’s son born”: EMF, Locked Diary, April 21, 1933, KCC.
230 “I nearly dropped in”: EMF to BB, Sunday [early June 1933], Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:117.
231 “Harry . . . is always yapping”: EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 26, 1933, KCC.
231 “I now know that”: May Buckingham, “Some Reminiscences,” reprinted in J. H. Stape, ed., E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections, 77.
231 “The happiest hours”: EMF to BB, Sunday [early June 1933], Lago and Furbank, eds., Selected Letters, II:117.
