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King's/PP/EMF/16 contains:
1 E.M. Forster's Commonplace Book
2 Piece of Dryden
3 Poems by Thomas Hardy
4 On Homosexuality
5 'Anthology'
5a Two items relating to male sexuality
6 'The linnet in the rocky dells'
7 Extract of letter from Marie Mauron
8 'One of their Gods'
9 Items destroyed
10 Scrapbook I
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The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster

Title On Homosexuality
Reference EMF/16/4
Covering Dates 1930–1969 (1930s-60s. Dates have been estimated.)
Extent and Medium 25 items in 11 envelopes; paper
Content and context

This sub-series is a collection of writings by others relating to homosexuality and social attitudes towards it.

These items were formerly the contents of a single envelope given the reference xvi/4. Its contents were split, however, and given places within the classifications xviii/u/i and xxix. The contents have now been reunited with the envelope.

King's/PP/EMF/16/4 contains:
1 Original envelope with autograph manuscript notes on its contents. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/1/C.
1 envelope; paper.
2 'Boys will be Boys'. Short story by Hal Porter on pages removed from 'The London Magazine', with note by E.M. Forster on its source. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/2/A.
Creator: Porter, Hal.
1 envelope; paper.
Sep. 1962
3 'Respect for Khalid'. Short story by Elmore Leppert, on pages torn from 'Quixote' magazine. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/3/A.
Creator: Leppert, Elmore.
1 envelope; paper.
1954–1960
4 'Autobiography of X'. Typescript transcript, apparently a case history from a treatise on homosexuality. The typing is similar to E.M. Forster's own in the 1930s. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/4/A.
1 envelope; paper.
1930–1939
5 'Sailors at Portsmouth'. Typescript transcript of a memorandum by 'Z'. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/5/A.
1 envelope; paper.
1930–1939
6 Naval Report. Typescript transcript headed by E.M. Forster, 'United States Navy: Naval Report U.S.A.', concerning affairs in the U.S. Navy in 1919. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/6/A.
1 envelope; paper.
1930–1939
7 'The Moral Decision about Homosexuality'. Pages torn from unidentified periodical containing an article by Iris Murdoch, reproduced from 'Man and Society'. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/7/A.
Creator: Murdoch, Iris.
1 envelope; paper.
Feb. 1965
8 'Among Sailors: Endearment'. Carbon typescript erotic short story. Attributed to 'J.H.S.' [possibly John Hampson Simpson] by E.M. Forster on the envelope catalogued as EMF/16/4/1. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/8/C.
1 envelope; paper.
1930–1939
9 'The Miner and Mythology'. Typescript narrative poem in free verse. Attributed by E.M. Forster to 'Balfour', and possibly set in Canada, since Amyox' may be read as Amyot, Ontario. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/9/C.
1 envelope; paper.
1930–1939
10 'Homosexual Acts'. Roneo typescript copy of a letter to 'The Times', signed by Noel Annan and others but not E.M. Forster. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/10/C.
1 envelope; paper.
7 Mar. 1958
11 'The Hitchhiker'. Short story by Donald Windham (No. 10 of 250 copies). . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 16/4/11C.
Creator: Windham, Donald.
1 envelope; paper.
Aug. 1950

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