Janus: The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster

King's/PP/EMF contains:
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11	Memoirs
12	Journals, journal entries and itineraries
13	Memoranda
14	Notebooks with mixed contents
15	Other notes
16	Anthologies, commonplace books and quotations
17	Financial records
18	Correspondence of E.M. Forster and his family
19	Biographical Records
20	E.M.L. Forster materials
21	A.C. Forster materials
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The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster

Title	Anthologies, commonplace books and quotations
Reference	EMF/16
Covering Dates	1804–1968
Extent and Medium	47 sheets/folios and 6 notebooks/volumes; paper

Content and context

This series comprises material written by others and collected by E.M. Forster, who either retained them as loose sheets or placed them in notebooks.

King's/PP/EMF/16 contains:

E.M. Forster's Commonplace Book. To request this document, please use the following call mark: vol. 6/12.
1 volume; paper.

1804–1968

Piece of Dryden. Autograph manuscript copy of part of Dryden's praise of Charles Sackville, Shakespeare and Homer. Includes reference to Dryden's 'Essays' (ed. W.P. Ker, 1926). To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/2/A.
Creator: Dryden, John.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

1930

Poems by Thomas Hardy. Autograph manuscript transcript of two poems by Thomas Hardy, one entitled 'Thoughts at Midnight' and the other beginning with the line 'We say we shall not meet'. These were the two Thomas Hardy poetry manuscripts which E.M. Forster owned. Sent to Florence Barger. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 16/3/A.
Creator: Hardy, Thomas.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

1930

On Homosexuality.
25 items in 11 envelopes; paper.

1930–1969

'Anthology'. Autograph manuscript transcripts of passages by other individuals reflecting homosexual experience, entitled 'Anthology' by E.M. Forster. Contents page is c. 1942. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/5/C.
1 notebook in envelope; paper.

1920–1960

Two items relating to male sexuality. One item consists of manuscript lines of verse in an unidentified hand. [Possibly 1950s, since the watermark has a trellis design, possibly of the 1950s.] The other is a typescript essay, 'Eunuchs or Hijas', on the history, current status and organisation of eunuchdom in the East. Acquired for E.M. Forster by S.R. Masood, Jan. 1922. Endorsed by E.M. Forster, c. 1930. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 16/5a/C.
8 sheets in envelope; paper.

–1959

'The linnet in the rocky dells'. Autograph manuscript transcript of the last four stanzas of Emily Brontë's poem, 'The linnet in the rocky dells'. Possibly torn from a leaf of a lecture by E.M. Forster; his introduction to the lines is visible at the top of the page. To request this document, please use the following call mark: vol. 8/19.
Creator: Brontë, Emily.
f77 of modern guard book; paper.

1905

Extract of letter from Marie Mauron. Autograph manuscript transcript of a paragraph from a letter from Marie Mauron to F.L. Lucas, 10 Nov. 1942, about her and Charles Mauron's responses to the War. Includes one word and an appended note in the hand of F.L. Lucas. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/7/A.
Creator: Mauron, Marie.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

1942

'One of their Gods'. Autograph manuscript transcript of a translation by [? George Valassopoulos] of Cavafy's poem, 'One of their Gods'. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/8/A. see also 18/101/1 for a photocopied letter dated 27 Sept. 1925 concerning provenance and publication.
Creator: Cavafy, C.P.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

1930–1939

Items destroyed. Autograph manuscript, 'Record of letters, books, &ct. destroyed by me after my mother's death'. Contains 124 numbered extracts from letters, transcripts of poems, descriptions of photographs, and other notes. Includes manuscript annotations by P.N. Furbank. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/9/C.
1 notebook in envelope; paper.

1945

Scrapbook I. Book in which E.M. Forster pasted cuttings of his own periodical writings. E.M. Forster's content-list, in pencil on the index pages, has been revised and expanded in the hand of Elizabeth Ellem. The contents have been listed in marked-up copies of Kirkpatrick held by the archive centre. To request this volume, please use the following call mark: vol. 5/5.
1 volume; paper.

1909-

Scrapbook II. Scrapbook containing manuscript and printed items, including illustrations, caricatures, newspaper cuttings, transcribed poems and greetings cards. Some items may have been pasted in by E.M. Forster, some were found loose and pasted in c. 1970-1. . To request this volume, please use the following call mark: vol. 6/13.
1 volume; paper.

1920-

Passage from 'De l'Amour'. Autograph manuscript transcript of a passage from Stendhal's 'De l'Amour' (I:14). Written on the back of a notice for a Union Society debate, 22 Apr. 1930. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/12A. see 16/13, f.25 and index.
Creator: Stendhal.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

1930

Anthology of fiction relating to war. Autograph manuscript anthology of prose and poetry relating to war. Begun in Alexandria, in late 1916, as a response to Robert Bridges' anthology 'The Spirit of Man' (1916), and resumed on 20 Mar. 1922. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/13/A.
1 notebook in envelope; paper.

1916-

Passage from Welch. Autograph manuscript transcript of a passage from Denton Welch's 'Journals' (14 Dec. 1942). Includes photocopies of the published source. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/14/C.
Creator: Welch, Denton.
8 sheets in envelope; paper.

1952