Identity area
Reference code
TRER/3/135
Title
Postcard from E. M. Forster to R. C. Trevelyan
Date(s)
- [Mar 1911?] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Extended ironical treatment of the descendants of Adam, with Biblical references, suggesting that 'Methusaleh, rather than Adam, is the source of original sin' and that he 'corrupt[ed] his great grandson amid the stacks of golden wood'. Did not know… read more
Allied materials area
Related units of description
3/90 also refers to the descendants of Adam; 3/107 also refers to Gilgamesh.