Item 135 - Postcard from E. M. Forster to R. C. Trevelyan

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Reference code

TRER/3/135

Title

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

Date(s)

  • [Mar 1911?] (Creation)

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1 item.

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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 knowread more

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Related units of description

3/90 also refers to the descendants of Adam; 3/107 also refers to Gilgamesh.

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