Janus: The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster

King's/PP/EMF contains:
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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
22	L.M. Forster materials
23	Thornton and Forster family material
24	Whichelo family material
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The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster

Title	Biographical Records
Reference	EMF/19
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	1851–1970
Extent and Medium	21 envelopes, 4 oversize items and 1 tube; parchment and paper

Content and context

This series contains both keepsakes and documents that mark important points in E.M. Forster's life. They include things as diverse as baby hairs, honorary degrees and last wills.

King's/PP/EMF/19 contains:

'Sailor Dollar Boy'. Alice Clara Forster's manuscript note of E.M. Forster's conversation with his doll, 'Sailor Dollar Boy', headed 'Baby's Soliloquy: having the "Sailor dollar boy" for its theme'. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/1/A.
Creator: Forster, A.C.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

25 Aug. 1881

Three rhymed riddles. Alice Clara Forster's manuscript record of three rhymed riddles composed by E.M. Forster in his childhood. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/2/A.
Creator: Forster, A.C.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

1882

'Hairs'. Envelope inscribed by E.M. Forster, 'Hairs', and in an earlier hand, 'My hair!'. Also locks of E.M. Forster's hair, 1882 and 1883, in envelopes inscribed by Alice Clara Forster and Marianne Thornton, a lock of Henry Thornton's hair, and 2 stamps in an envelope postmarked 1851. . To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/3/A.
Creator: Various.
5 items in envelope; paper.

1851–1883

Birth certificate. Two official stamped and taxed copies of E.M. Forster's birth registration certificate, the second issued six months before he matriculated at Cambridge. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/4/C.
Creator: Marylbone (Middlesex). Superintendent Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages; England.England. General Register Office.
2 sheets in envelope; paper.

2 Sep. 1893–20 Apr. 1897

Insurance policies. Agreements between E.M. Forster and Law Fire Insurance Society Ltd. Including memorandum that policy to be continued at new address of No. 9 Arlington Park Mansions. 20 Oct. 1939. Also includes an insurance policy for rooms in King's College dated 30 Jan. 1947. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/4a/A.
Creator: Law Fire Insurance Society Ltd.
2 items in envelope; paper.

20 Oct. 1939–30 Jan. 1947

Passports. Two passports issued to E.M. Forster; one in 1945 (renewed 1951), the other issued 1956 (renewed 1961). To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/5/A.
Creator: Great Britain and N. Ireland. Home Office.
2 items in envelope; paper.

1945–1966

Notebook containing signatures and good wishes. Notebook, originally conveying the best wishes of E.M. Forster's Surrey neighbours on his departure from West Hackhurst, 23 Sept. 1946, and then used (1949-70, except 1951 and 1953) to record the signatures of guests at E.M. Forster's birthday parties. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/6/A.
Creator: Various.
1 item in envelope; paper.

1943–1970

Honorary degree at University of Liverpool. Certificate of Honorary Degree presented by the University of Liverpool. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/6a/D.
Creator: University of Liverpool.
2 items in envelope; paper.

5 July 1947

Honorary degree at University of Cambridge. Printed Honorary Degree Congregation brochure for the University of Cambridge, 1950, with a roneo typescript English paraphrase of the Oration with which E.M. Forster was presented for his Honorary Degree. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/7/C.
Creator: University of Cambridge.
2 items in envelope; paper.

8 January 1950

Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour. Grant of the Dignity of a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/8/D.
Creator: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
1 item; paper.

1 Jan. 1953

Honorary degree at Victoria University. Certificate of Honorary Degree presented by Victoria University of Manchester. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/8a/D.
Creator: Victoria University, Manchester.
1 item in tube; paper.

12 May 1954

Proceedings at the award of an honorary degree at Leyden.
Creator: University of Leyden.
2 items in envelopes.

23 June 1954

Award as Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Certificate of E.M. Forster's election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and covering letter signed by the Secretary, Bruce H. Billings. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/10/D.
Creator: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2 items; paper.

14 May 1958

Honorary degree at Leicester University. Printed order of proceedings for the occasion on which E.M. Forster was given an Honorary Degree at Leicester University. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/11/A.
Creator: Leicester University.
1 item in envelope; paper.

20 June 1958

Award of Companion of Literature. Illuminated parchment attesting the conferment of the honour of Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/12/D.
Creator: Royal Society of Literature.
1 item; paper.

10 May 1961

Drafts of E.M. Forster's will. Typescript draft of E.M. Forster's will with autograph manuscript revisions and envelope in which it was found. This file also includes two photocopies of E.M. Forster's will. 25 June 1965, with codicil 7 Mar. 1967. Not certified official copies of the probated will, but made before E.M. Forster's death. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/13/C.
Creator: Forster, E.M.
27 items in envelope; paper.

1965–1967

Member of the Order of Merit. Grant of the Dignity of a Member of the Order of Merit. Includes printed List of Members. . To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/14/D.
Creator: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
2 items in envelope; paper.

1 Jan. 1969

14a

Eightieth birthday lunch. Notes and papers regarding E.M. Forster's eightieth birthday lunch at King's College, 9 Jan. 1959. Includes autograph letters, signed, and typed letters, signed, between Noel Annan, John Saltmarsh and E.M. Forster regarding arrangements, invitations, replies from guests, seating arrangements and typescripts of the speeches made by E.M. Forster and Noel Annan, May 1958-Feb. 1959. 2 autograph letters, signed, from Mollie Panter Downes to Provost on 'profile' of E.M. Forster and concert in his honour, with a carbon typed letter of Provost's reply, Feb.-Mar. 1959. 1 autograph letter, signed, from Mrs Doris Watson to Provost on concert in honour of E.M. Forster and a carbon typed letter of Provost's reply, Mar. 1959. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 9/14a/C.
Creator: Various.
109 items in envelope; paper.

May 1958-Mar. 1959

Menu from ninetieth birthday lunch. E.M. Forster's copy of the menu of the lunch given him by King's College to celebrate his ninetieth birthday, signed by the 24 guests. Written and illustrated in watercolour by Dr. George Salt, Fellow. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/15/C.
Creator: Salt, Dr. George.
1 item in envelope; paper.

4 Jan. 1969

Ninetieth birthday lunch. Autograph manuscript and typescript notes by Patrick Wilkinson and letters to him concerning his arrangements for E.M. Forster's ninetieth birthday lunch at King's College, 4 Jan. 1969. Includes replies from the guests and 4 autograph letters, signed, from Bob Buckingham on E.M. Forster's wishes. Also includes references to the Provost's dinner and the Chapel concert given for E.M. Forster, 25 and 26 Jan. 1969. . To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/16/C.
Creator: Various.
57 items in envelope; paper.

July 1968-Mar. 1969

NHS Medical Card. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/17/A.
Creator: Great Britain and N. Ireland. National Health Service.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Death certificate. Certified copy of an entry of death for Donald Beves. Registered 8 July 1961. Copy made 14 Sept. 1965. To request this document, please use the following call mark: 19/18/A.
Creator: England. General Register Office.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

14 Sep. 1965

Letters of condolence. Letters of condolence sent after E.M. Forster's death and responses. Includes telegrams from Elizabeth II and the Indian High Commissioner. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/19/C.
Creator: Various.
14 sheets in envelope; paper.

June 1970

Memorial concert. Artifacts of the memorial concert in E.M. Forster's honour. Includes not only materials related to preparations for the concert, but also correspondence to the Vice-Provost generated as a result. To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/20/C.
Creator: Various.
141 items in envelope; paper.

22 Nov. 1970