Item 51 - Card from E. M. Forster to R. C. Trevelyan

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TRER/17/51

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Card from E. M. Forster to R. C. Trevelyan

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  • 11 July 1943 [postmark] (Creation)

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1 item: old index card used as postcard

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Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Postmarked Dorking. - His mother sends her love and much enjoyed the broadcast [of Bob's essay "Simple Pleasures", broadcast on the BBC Home Service on the evening of 10 July] but wished Bob had been reading himself. Arthur [Waley] enjoyed it too, and found it 'a strange and a pleasant change to hear the loudspeaker speaking common-sense'; did not think the readers were bad, apart from 'the woman with the tea-kettle sigh'. Hopes Bob will be able to visit later in the month. was 'so nice' to see Bessy. Is not going to the dinner.

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