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212
“If you want a permanent”:
EMF to JRA, April 9, 1928, HRC.

212
“uncle in the clothes trade”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:186.

212
“I was 250 years old”:
EMF to JRA, early Aug. 1929, HRC.

213
“is slowly dispatching him”:
Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, May 19, 1926; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds.,
The Letters of Virginia Woolf
, 266.

213
“T. E. liked to meet people”:
Forster, “T. E. Lawrence,” in A. W. Lawrence, ed.,
T. E. Lawrence by His Friends
, 247.

213
“I wanted to read”:
TEL to EMF, Sept. 8, 1927, in Malcolm Brown, ed.,
T. E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters
, 368.

214
“an awful tease”:
Forster, “T. E. Lawrence,” in A. W. Lawrence, ed.,
T. E. Lawrence by His Friends
, 247.

214
“did not like being touched”:
Ibid., 248.

214
“forthcoming volume of stories”:
EMF to TEL, Dec. 16, 1927, KCC.

214
“promises to be [my] last”:
Ibid.

214
“the frail house of old”:
Ibid.

214
“hanker at all after”:
Ibid.

215
“intellectually null”:
F. R. Leavis to Oliver Stallybrass, quoted in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:144.

215
“Give us also the right”:
Hall,
The Well of Loneliness
, 506.

215
“[the novel] is a seductive”: Sunday Express
, Aug. 19, 1928.

216
“defendants have it in mind”:
Home Office to Sir Archibald Bodkin, Oct. 22, 1928, National Archives DPP 1/92.

216
“sodomy & sapphism”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf
, III:193, Aug. 31, 1928.

216
“Soon we were telephoning”:
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, Aug. 30, 1928; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds.,
The Letters of Virginia Woolf
, III:520.

216
“Radclyffe scolds him”:
Ibid.

216
“meritorious dull book”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf
, III:193, Aug. 31, 1928.

216
“disgusting: partly from conventions”:
Ibid.

217
Hall’s book embraced:
Ibid.

217
“Would you like to be converted”:
Ibid.

217
“comic little letter”:
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, Sept. 8, 1928; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds.,
The Letters of Virginia Woolf
, III:530; Forster, “The New Censorship,”
The Nation and Athenaeum
, Sept. 1, 1928.

217
“What with being blackmailed”:
EMF to Sprott, n.d., Nov. 1928, KCC.

217
“She swears I shan’t be”:
EMF to JRA, Nov. 16, 1928, HRC.

218
“summoned for advice and sympathy”:
EMF to Sprott, n.d., Nov. 1928, KCC.

218
“read the wrong book”:
Ibid.

218
“I calmed down rather quickly”:
Ibid.

218
“was always frightened”:
Daley to Furbank, date obscured, 1968.

218
“‘Love’ seems hardly the right”:
Daley,
This Small Cloud
, 135.

219
“I feel sickish”:
EMF to JRA, Nov. 13, 1930, HRC.

219
“I don’t blame you”:
EMF to JRA, Feb. 14, 1931, HRC.

219
“On Harry it is as easy”:
EMF to JRA, Jan. 3, 1928, HRC.

219
“Hammersmith is a complete”:
EMF to JRA, Jan. 5, 1928, HRC.

219
“I am so glad you are”:
EMF to JRA, n.d., August [?] 1926, HRC.

219
“rather unhappy”:
Carrington to Sprott, early March 1929, in Garnett, ed.,
Carrington
, 405.

220
“something of . . . Mae West”:
Ackerley,
My Father and Myself
, 20.

221
“not really a reading man”:
Daley to Furbank, April 12, 1968.

221
“amused protective kindness”:
Daley to Furbank, date obscured, late March 1968.

222
“I must re-emphasise the need”:
EMF to JRA, Jan. 14, 1931, HRC.

222
“I am quite sure”:
EMF to Sprott, July 16, 1931; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:105.

222
“fallen very violently”:
Ibid.

222
“fayish”:
LS to Roger Senhouse, April 21, 1931; Levy, ed.,
The Letters of Lytton Strachey
, 642.

222
“a spiritual feeling”:
EMF to Sprott, July 16, 1931; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:105.

222
“Mr. Bucknam”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:167.

222
“found Policeman Bob”:
Carrington to Sprott, summer 1931, KCC.

223
“completely unlike”:
Forster, “Notes on
Maurice
,” in
Maurice
, 216.

223
“Bob was the man”:
Daley to Furbank, March 21, 1968.

223
“lover and beloved”:
EMF to Sprott, Oct. 4, 1932; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:112.

223
“Bob, aged 5”:
These entries, both from the Locked Diary, are undated, added to the verso sides of entries in 1909 and 1915.

224
“Olive”:
Alexander,
William Plomer
, 231.

224
“unguardeed moment”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:178.

225
“John Lehmann is back”:
EMF to Sprott, Sept. 21, 1933, KCC.

225
“At Duncan [Grant]’s show”:
“Lilies,” VW to Quentin Bell, Dec. 21, 1933; Nicholson and Trautmann, eds.,
The Letters of Virginia Woolf
, V:262; “Bugger Boys,”
The Diaries of Virginia Woolf
, V:120, Nov. 30, 1937.

225
“youthful interest in everything”:
Forster,
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
(Abinger), 196.

225
“unreal”:
Ibid., 197.

225
“chiefly occupied in saving”:
Ibid.

225
“Mrs. Newman his bedmaker”:
EMF to Malcolm Darling, Aug. 24, 1932, HRC.

226
“If he fails me”:
EMF to JRA, Nov. 10, 1932, HRC.

226
“He must be made”:
EMF to Sprott, Oct. 4, 1932, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:112; EMF to Sprott, July 16, 1931, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:105.

226
“We’ve got to go”:
EMF to Sprott, Oct. 11, 1932, KCC.

226
“Yesterday when I went”:
Ibid.

227
“When I cannot ‘get’”:
EMF to Sprott, Oct. 4, 1932, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:112.

227
“the greatest imaginative novelist”:
Forster, “D. H. Lawrence,”
Nation and Athenaeum
, March 29, 1930.

227
“I have had such a shock”:
EMF to Frieda Lawrence, March 4, 1930, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:91.

228
“I continue to read”:
EMF to JRA, Feb. 12, 1933, HRC.

228
“I wish I could”:
EMF to JRA, Jan. 10, 1933, HRC.

228
“in the hope that”:
Proctor, ed., “Introduction” to
The Autobiography of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
, 9.

228
“My present feeling”:
GLD to EMF, July 10, 1932, KCC.

229
“Unlike the green bird”:
Forster,
A Passage to India
, 85.

229
“Although he was never”:
Forster,
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
, 47.

229
“Devoted to [Ferdinand] Schiller”:
Ibid., 63.

229
“I have seldom been”:
Ibid., 56.

229
“I think that few”:
Ibid., 58.

230
“Mephistopheles . . . puts his head”:
Ibid., 199.

230
“rested on the constancy”:
Forster on Carpenter, in Beith, ed.,
Edward Carpenter
, 81.

230
“interest . . . the next generation”: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf
, V:314, Sept. 2, 1940.

230
“Bob’s son born”:
EMF, Locked Diary, April 21, 1933, KCC.

230
“I nearly dropped in”:
EMF to BB, Sunday [early June 1933], Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:117.

231
“Harry . . . is always yapping”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 26, 1933, KCC.

231
“I now know that”:
May Buckingham, “Some Reminiscences,” reprinted in J. H. Stape, ed.,
E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections
, 77.

231
“The happiest hours”:
EMF to BB, Sunday [early June 1933], Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:117.

232
“Bob met me”:
EMF to FB, July 4, 1932, KCC.

232
“I have sometime thought”:
EMF to CI, Aug. 28, 1938, Huntington; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:158.

232
“I have been happy”:
Gardner, ed.,
Commonplace Book
(1932), 94.

233
“Yes, if the pendulum”:
EMF to CI, July 16, 1933, Huntington; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:118–19.

233
“put on the next”:
Parker,
Christopher Isherwood
, 277.

234
“Delighted!”:
Humphrey Carpenter,
W. H. Auden
, 176.

234
“What are buggers for?”:
Allen,
As I Walked Down New Grub Street
, 56.

234
“It’s on Thomas Mann”:
Ibid., 58.

234
“a line of affection”:
EMF to Sassoon, Nov. 6, 1933, quoted in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:181.

234
“Your news, though I accept”:
EMF to Sassoon, Nov. 8, 1933, quoted ibid.

235
“he seemed quite genuine”:
EMF to JRA, Dec. 1, 1933, HRC.