King's/PP/EMF/20 contains:
1	Envelope and lock of hair, 1868
2	Sketchbook, 1871
3	Roman sketchbook
4	Norman and Breton sketchbook
5	Sketches of France
6	Italian sketchbook
7	Norman sketchbook
8	French architectural studies
9	Envelope and lock of hair, at death
10	Design for a mantelpiece
11	Mantelpiece plate

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The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster

Title	Design for a mantelpiece
Reference	EMF/20/10 (former reference: K4 Parcel 6)
Covering Dates	1870–1879 (Date of design is estimated. Description is undated.)
Extent and Medium	2 sheets in oversize envelope; paper

Content and context

E.M.L. Forster's design for a mantelpiece, built and given to Mrs. Synnott (Mrs. Aylward) in the 1870s, and given by Mrs. Aylward to E.M.L. Forster's widow, E.M. Forster's mother, in the 1880s. E.M. Forster's mother first put-up the mantelpiece at Rook's Nest and later in each of the houses subsequently occupied by her and her son, including Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Weybridge, West Hackhurst and Abinger Hammer. Moved to E.M. Forster's rooms at King's College, Cambridge in 1946. The file also contains a short typescript description of the mantelpiece.

To request this document, please use the following call mark: 20/10/D

Further information

A brass plate later associated with the mantelpiece is currently catalogued as EMF/20/11.

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