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- 8-11 Apr 1945 (Creation)
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W[est] H[ackhurst]. - Wrote to Bob before going to Dorset for a week, but ‘lost the letter [probably TRER/3/26] after it had been addressed. He ‘may seem to have been indifferent to the kindness and sympathy’ of them both [on the death of his mother], but ‘this is not so’. Everyone has been ‘so kind, and Agnes is wonderful’; Ruth [Goldsmith, the Forster's old cook?] is staying with her for three days. Is going to London ‘to broadcast as usual’; when he returns, he thinks on Tuesday evening, would like to come over to see Bob and Bessie if that would suit them. Florence and Aunt Rosie ‘have alternated here’; at the moment he is ‘sustained by Bob Buckingham’. His health is ‘very fair’, and he is eating and sleeping properly.
Stayed in Dorset with ‘some young people [Pat and Joyce Knowles] who are the custodians of Clouds Hill [the former home of T. E. Lawrence]. They were absolutely charming, but the weather was poor’.
Postscript dated ’11.4.45’: ‘Even this has been left about’. Will ring up some time tomorrow.
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- Forster, Edward Morgan (1879-1970), novelist and essayist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Forster, Alice Clara (1855-1945), mother of E. M. Forster (Subject)
- Dowland, Agnes J. (c 1876-1956), maid to E. M. Forster and his mother (Subject)
- Goldsmith, Ruth (b c 1872), cook for E. M. Forster and his mother (Subject)
- Barger, Florence Emily (1879-1960), inspector of schools (Subject)
- Alford, Rosalie (1866-1957), aunt of E. M. Forster (Subject)
- Knowles, Patrick Thomas (1906-1981), friend of T. E. Lawrence and custodian of Clouds Hill (Subject)
- Knowles, Joyce Eleanor (1909-1998), custodian of Clouds Hill (Subject)