Item 13 - Letter from E. M. Forster

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SHAF/A/1/F/13

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Letter from E. M. Forster

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  • 7 Mar. 1948 (Creation)

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K.C.C. - Returns Peter's MS with not much to say; outside comment can be most helpful to teach the main technique of writing, but he has already mastered that; he read the two stories Peter had marked and two more; he has a wide range of subject; notes that where he is observant and natural, which is most of 'The Pit Boy' he makes 'good reading', but when he is 'contriving' it wasn't so interesting; it is a pity that because of its length 'The Pit Boy' could not be entered in the competition: the four boys 'are sketched out excellently'.

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      Accompanied by an envelope docketed in PS's hand, 'E. M. Forster letter to Peter Shaffer in Cambridge 1948'.

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