Item 34 - Letter from E. M. Forster to R. C. Trevelyan

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Thanks Trevelyan for the books; has read some of them on a holiday in Upper Egypt. Liked Joyce ["Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"?] and Eliot ["Prufrock and Other Observations"?] very much; enjoyed Virginia's story but not Woolf's [""The Mark on the Wall" and "Three Jews", published by the Woolfs as "Two Stories"]; liked Choke-off [a pun on Chekhov?]. He also liked Trevelyan's work: 'not as much as some of your things', but Mrs Borchgrevink enjoyed them. Will send a cheque; if there is really a surplus asks Trevelyan to send some more new books, though nothing by Jules Romains or Norman Douglas as he has read them. Teases him for not recognising 'the Salzerdromes' as a reference to his own "Pterodamozels" [see 3/33] but is glad the play reached him anyway. Wishes he could write himself; has managed nothing but a few articles 'for the worse of the two English papers here'. Says he is annoyed with Allenby for not providing him with work [by winning victories to write about]. Jokes about Bedouins laying eggs. Is glad Julian likes school.