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Forster, Edward Morgan, 1879-1970 (novelist and critic)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1879 - 1970

Dates and places

King's College, Cambridge, 1897

Legal status / Nationality

British

Sphere of activity

Novelist

Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:

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Letters to RNL from Edward Morgan Forster, 1931-01-14 - 1969-02-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RNL/2/190
Scope and Contents

8 autograph letters signed.

Dates: 1931-01-14 - 1969-02-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: Some items contain sensitive personal information and are closed to researchers under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998). A request to view these items must be made in writing to the Archivist who will discuss with the researcher the possibilities for obtaining the written permission of the author. A statement to this effect is given with each closed file.
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Letters to RNL from Margaret Waley, 1968-02-29 - 1968-04-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RNL/2/635
Scope and Contents

2 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph letter unsigned. The letters are of particular interest because they contain Margaret Waley's memories of Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Ottoline Morrell and Dora Carrington, prompted by the publication of Michael Holroyd's biography of Lytton Strachey in 1967 and 1968.

Dates: 1968-02-29 - 1968-04-19
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: Some items contain sensitive personal information and are closed to researchers under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998). A request to view these items must be made in writing to the Archivist who will discuss with the researcher the possibilities for obtaining the written permission of the author. A statement to this effect is given with each closed file.
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Letters to Rupert Brooke from a variety of correspondents, 1909 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RCB/L/1
Scope and Contents A composite album with the sheets arranged as follows:[ff. 1-3] 1 autograph postcard, signed, from Lascelles Abercrombie with congratulations on Fellowship, 31 Mar. 1913 and 2 autograph letters, signed, on Mme. Strindberg and her projected production of 'Lysistrata', 30 Sept. and 5 Oct.[ff. 4-5] Letters from Harley Granville Barker, including: 1 letter written by his secretary and signed by him declining an invitation to lunch, 8 Nov. 1909 and 1 typed letter, signed by his secretary...
Dates: 1909 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Letters to Vanessa and Clive Bell on the death of Virginia Woolf, 1941-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/1/697
Scope and Contents Photocopies of 60 autograph letters signed from: Colin Agnew, Barbara Bagenal, Margaret Balchin, Col. Cory Heward Bell, Mrs. H. T. Bell, Nellie Boxall, Nelly Cecil, Bishop of Chichester, 'K' [Kenneth Clark], Marie Collett, [?Violet Dickinson], Margaret Duckworth, Sophia Farrell, Lettice Fisher, E.M. Forster, Ethel Grant, Edward Lewis, Ruby Lindsay, 'Topsy' Lucas, [Molly MacCarthy], Violet Mannering, Beatrice Mayor, Raymond Mortimer, Victor Pasmore, Patricia Preece, Claude and Elsie Rogers,...
Dates: 1941-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Letters to Vishwa Nath Datta

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9578
Scope and Contents

The letters are mostly from senior members of the University of Cambridge. With related items.

Dates: 1952-2002
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Listed letters, 1948-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/HB/L/7/b
Scope and Contents This file includes letters from the following (listed in alphabetical order by last name):1. Clive Bell2. Kenneth Clark3. Cyril Connolly4. Douglas Cooper5. C. Day Lewis6. Una Ellis-Fermor7. Frederick Etchells8. E. M. Forster9. Michael Hamburger10. L. C. Knights11. E. V. Knox12. Earl of Lytton13. Sir Eric Maclagan14. John Masefield15. Henry Moore16. Eric Partridge17. William Plomer18. Anthony Powell19. J. B....
Dates: 1948-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: HB/M/21 is reserved (not available to researchers) under the Data Protection Act.
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Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Ralph Partridge, Frances Partridge and Pierre Lancel standing on a bridge, 1922 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/7/4/1/493
Scope and Contents Snapshot of Ralph Partridge standing to the left, wearing a dark beret, with both hands resting on the top railing of the wooden bridge. Next to him stands E.M. Forster wearing a flat cloth cap. In the centre stands Lytton Strachey wearing a hat and resting his hands on the bridge railing. Next to him stands Pierre Lancel, and to the far left stands Frances Partridge wearing a dark hat. All are looking towards the camera. In the foreground are a jetty and water. According to Frances...
Dates: 1922 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Lytton Strachey sitting with E.M. Forster, 1922 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/7/4/1/696
Scope and Contents

Snapshot of Lytton Strachey sitting in a deckchair to the left on the verandah of Ham Spray House. He is wearing a hat, looks to the right, and holds a cup and saucer in his left hand. E.M. Forster sits in a deckchair to the right, looking downwards to the left, with both hands resting in his lap.

Dates: 1922 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Lytton Strachey sitting with W.J. H. Sprott, Gerald Heard and E.M. Forster, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/7/3/1/121
Scope and Contents

Snapshot of W.J. H. ('Sebastian') Sprott sitting at a table spread with teacups, a teapot and a loaf of bread on the lawn of Ham Spray House. He looks down at a cat lying on his lap. Gerald Heard sits next to him, looking downwards to the right at the cat. Next to him sits E.M. Forster, looking downwards to the left. Lytton Strachey sits to the right, wearing a hat, with is left arm resting on his crossed legs, looking towards the camera.

Dates: 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Lytton Strachey standing on a bridge with E.M. Forster and Pierre Lancel, 1922 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/7/4/1/467
Scope and Contents Snapshot of E.M. Forster standing to the left of the image on a wooden bridge, wearing a flat cloth cap, looking towards the camera and holding his right hand to his mouth. Lytton Strachey stands next to him (in the middle of the group), holding a walking stick in his hands, which are resting on the top railing of the bridge. He looks to the right at Pierre Lancel, who rests his left elbow and right foot on the railings of the bridge. According to Frances Partridge's index, this image was...
Dates: 1922 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Lytton Strachey standing with E.M. Forster, Joe Ackerley and an unidentified man, 1922 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/7/4/1/469
Scope and Contents

Snapshot of E.M. Forster standing to the right of the image, wearing a flat cloth cap and looking to the camera. Joe Ackerley stands next to him to the left, smiling towards the camera with his hands by his sides. Lytton Strachey stands further to the left, wearing a hat and holding a coat over his arms. To the furthest left of the image is an unidentified man holding a bundle of coats in his hands.

Dates: 1922 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Notebook concerning 'The Old Century' and 'The Weald of Youth', 1936-1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/7/1/3
Scope and Contents The volume comprises preliminary notes and heavily revised drafts of 'The Old Century', and notes on various subjects, chiefly autobiographical, including the summer of 1914 (later incorporated into 'The Weald of Youth'). These are interspersed with diary entries dated June 1937 - February 1938. It includes: - watercolour frontispiece entitled 'Memories': /1r. - note on sequence in which Sassoon wrote his notes and drafts in various notebooks from March 1936-January 1937: /1v. - quotations:...
Dates: 1936-1938
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Personal and business papers, 1900 - 1957-01

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/AEF/3/1
Scope and Contents The series includes letters received, copies and carbons of AEF's outgoing letters, photographs, picture postcards, theatre programmes, telegrams, school and university examination papers, newspaper cuttings and documents relating to the League of Nations. Only significant correspondents are noted.The correspondence is mainly between Felkin and his mother, Mrs Amelia Felkin, his sister Winifred, his wife Joyce and his children Hugh and Penelope. Also included are letters from the...
Dates: 1900 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Poems and 'Autobiographical Notes: mainly in connection with Gosse and Hardy', 1920-1939 (circa; largely 1930s)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/6/4
Scope and Contents This notebook containing poetical drafts and autobiographical notes on Edmund Gosse, Ralph Hodgson, and Thomas Hardy. It also includes further prose and transcript-type diary entries. The notebook was used from both ends; after folio 22 entries continue from the back. The title page is illustrated with a heart emblem above the words, 'My heart ever faithful'. Contents:Notes and prose drafts on Gosse: /1v-6v. These include: - 'Outline for chapter 6', which was to contain sections...
Dates: 1920-1939 (circa; largely 1930s)
Conditions Governing Access: Fragile - please handle with care.
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Postcards from E.M. Forster to Vanessa Bell, 1952 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/AG/1/27
Scope and Contents

3 autograph postcards, signed.

Dates: 1952 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Letters by persons still living may only be read with the written permission of the author. The correspondence between Mrs. Garnett and her late husband, David Garnett, may only be read by permission of the family. For further information, please contact the Archivist.
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Programmes for Forster centenary, 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/42/6
Scope and Contents

Three files of material relating to G.H.W. Rylands's programme in celebration of the centenary of the birth of EMF, performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, June 1979.

Dates: 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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'Special Boxes', 1912-06 - 1929-10

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/AEF/2/1
Scope and Contents The correspondence in the special boxes includes letters from Francis Birrell (2 autograph postcards signed, 1919), Noel Compton-Burnett (typescript copies, 1913-15), Ka Cox [Arnold-Forster] (6 autograph letters signed, 1927-9), Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (4 autograph letters signed, 10 typed letters signed, c. 1912-27), E.M. Forster (1 autograph letter signed, 1919), Florence Hardy (8 autograph letters signed, 1919-20), Margaret Jourdain (11 autograph letters signed, 1919-29), John Maynard...
Dates: 1912-06 - 1929-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Sydney Waterlow standing with W.J.H. Sprott, Dora Carrington and E.M. Forster, 1928-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP/7/3/1/122
Scope and Contents Snapshot of Sydney Waterlow standing to the left, with his hands held together in front of him. He is smiling and looking downwards to the right. W.J.H. ('Sebastian') Sprott stands next to him, turning away from the camera, holding a book in his hands. Dora Carrington stands in the centre of the group, smiling and looking towards the camera. E.M. Forster stands next to her, with his hands together in front of him, looking downwards to the left. To the right, nearest the camera, sits a woman...
Dates: 1928-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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'The Forster Collection at King's: A Survey', 1985 - 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/30/12
Scope and Contents

Off-print of an article from 'Twentieth Century Literature', Hofstra University Press, vol. 31, nos 1-2. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 30/12/A

Dates: 1985 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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'The Tasking', 'Unwonted Themes' and 'Meredith Biographical References etc.', 1947-1957 (circa; the Meredith notes precede 1948; the poems date circa 1951-1957)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/6/9
Scope and Contents Notebook comprising draft poems for 'The Tasking' and 'Unwonted Themes' at one end, and notes for 'Meredith' from the other. The notebook also includes an almost continuous run of diary entries for 5 Feb. 1953 - 4 Apr. 1954. While the diary entries begin from the poetry end, many share pages with the Meredith notes. Contents: 'The Tasking. Unwonted Themes': /1r-29v & 76r. Contains the following draft poems and related notes: - Title page: /1r. - 'The Abstractionist': /1v. - Lists...
Dates: 1947-1957 (circa; the Meredith notes precede 1948; the poems date circa 1951-1957)
Conditions Governing Access: Fragile, with many loose or detached pages - please handle with care.
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Thornton Family: Letters and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7674
Scope and Contents Letters, diaries, legal documents, formal recollections, and odd scraps of personal information, chronicling the life of the Thornton family and reflecting the social life of the times. The bulk of the material covers the lifetime of E.M. Forster's great aunt Marianne Thornton. In addition to such letters of her own which have survived, she and other members of the family transcribed much of the family correspondence in several volumes of handwritten copies of letters. These include letters...
Dates: 1742-1881 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Unstead, R.J.: Correspondence with the Press, 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PRESS 3/1/2/12588
Scope and Contents

This correspondence relates to a proposed publication about Virginia Woolf by R.J. Unstead and comprises a letter from E.M. Forster and a report by G.H.W. Rylands.

Dates: 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
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Vice-Provost's photographs of Fellows and senior members of the administrative staff, 1930 - 1999

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/KCAC/1/2/6/5
Scope and Contents The year of entry has been given, where known. Comprise photographs of the following:-Annan, Noel Gilroy (KC 1935)Aunger, [?]Arkwright, Bertram Richard ('Dick') (KC 1962)Bernal, Martin (KC 1957)Booth, Martin (KC 1957)Bowen, John (KC 1967)Boyer, Pascal-Robert (KC 1986)Brennan, EdwardBrooks, StephenBrown, ECadbury, [?]Champernowne, David (KC 1931)Chipchase, Paul (KC 1973)Clark, DavidClutton-Brock, Timothy (KC 1976)Colclough, David...
Dates: 1930 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some records contain personal information as defined under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998) and will be reserved.
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Welcome letter, 194610

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Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/269/5/xix/a
Scope and Contents

This printed letter, circulated to all expressing an interest in becoming a member of the Institute, is written by the Honorary Secretary N. T. D. Kanakaratne. It includes messages of support for the Institute and its aims from: T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley and Somerset Maugham.

Dates: 194610
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