Item 65 - Letter from E. M. Forster to R. C. Trevelyan

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TRER/3/65

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

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  • 13 Aug 1938 (Creation)

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W[est] H[ackhurst]. - Very much liked the poem Trevelyan has written about Goldie [Dickinson]: Bessie has given him a copy to keep. He shares the sentiments about Goldie: he was not afraid of death, only distressed by the state of the world as he left it. Forster is glad he has gone, particularly that he did not live to see Japan attack China. Expects Trevelyan will send a copy to May and Hettie [Dickinson's sisters], to whom it will give great pleasure. Is lending his own copy to Florence Barger. Sends greetings to Trevelyan's brother [Sir Charles]; would like to visit him again, and wonders how his plantations coped with the summer. Has just returned from Dorset, and is to 'broadcast about T. E. Lawrence's cottage there.'

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      Trevelyan's poem about Goldie Dickinson was printed in the "New Statesman and Nation", 22 Oct 1938; a cutting can be found in 2/177.

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      Forster's radio programme about T. E. Lawrence, 'Cloud's Hill', was broadcast on 25 Aug 1938 on the Regional Programme, see the BBC's Programme Index website for details. Also mentioned in a letter to Elizabeth Trevelyan of 6 Sept 1938, see TRER/ADD/16.

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