A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (66 page)

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“rubbishy word”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Oct. 22, 1946, KCC.

258
the house of his “childhood and safety”:
EMF, Locked Diary, July 15, 1944, KCC.

258
“had been left [at West Hackhurst]”:
EMF, Locked Diary, June 1, 1945, KCC.

258
“surely she will give up being dead”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Sept. 6, 1945, KCC.

258
“O Bless Bob”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1947, KCC.

259
a “ratty little” melodrama:
Roerick, “Forster and America,” in Oliver Stallybrass, ed.,
Aspects of E. M. Forster
, 64.

260
Bill and Tom revered him:
A student correspondent from the Hamilton College newspaper described Forster’s visit in ecstatic terms: “E. M. Forster was here. But what can any person say about Percivale or Galahad or Bors . . . ? We did experience the holiness of the holiness of the real Forster through his art . . . So it is that we have been blessed by the sweetness of Harmony.”
Here and There
, June 1949, 7.

261
“worried because he was not a University man”:
EMF, American Journal, April 7, 1947, KCC. The journal, coincident with Forster’s journey in the spring of 1947, does not routinely record dates. It is in a small, singular notebook.

261
“true intellectuals”:
Interview with Mary Jackson, Hollywood, Aug. 6, 2002.

261
“is not Tom the funniest person”:
The inscription is carved on the back of Tom Coley’s tombstone in Tyringham, Massachusetts.

262
She once agreed:
Correspondence with Heather Thompson, Aug. 31, 2007.

262
“I think,” Morgan said drily:
Roerick, “Forster and America,” in Oliver Stallybrass, ed.,
Aspects of E. M. Forster
.

262
“an unprepossessing man”:
Giroux, “Meeting ‘An Old and Valued Author,’” in J. H. Stape, ed.,
E. M. Forster: Interviews and Recollections
, 91.

263
it looked very like a whale:
Ibid., 95.

263
“Be good, sir”:
EMF, American Journal, April 20, 1947, KCC.

263
“on the fringe of the habitable sections”:
PC to EMF, May 7, 1944, copy in KCC.

264
“long haired men”:
Chauncey, “Long Haired Men,” in
Greenwich Village
, 153.

264
“an unwarranted insult”: Time
, April 30, 1934; quoted in Kirstein,
Paul Cadmus
, 25.

265
the greasy spoon was a destination:
Chauncey,
Gay New York
, 166f.

265
“Fairyland’s not far from”:
Chauncey, “Long Haired Men,” 152.

265
“You can’t imagine how stuffy”:
EMF to PC, July 30, 1944, KCC.

265
before they could make “suitable arrangements”:
EMF to BB, May 8, 1947, KCC.

265
“delicious prosciutto”:
EMF, American Journal, April 20, 1947, KCC.

265
“the flat is Bloomsbury”:
Ibid.

265
“that cleverly blends in”:
PC to EMF, May 7, 1944, KCC.

266
furniture so worm-eaten:
Ibid.

266
an amiable “sun burnt rodent”:
EMF, American Journal, April 20, 1947, KCC.

266
“the only true bisexual” man:
Interview with Jon Anderson, Oct. 10, 2007.

267
“surly and morose”:
Duberman,
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
, 414. Duberman’s quote is from an interview with George Tooker.

268
“I don’t
look
like your Bohemian”:
PC to EMF, May 7, 1944, KCC.

268
“Paul Cadmus must protect himself”:
EMF, American Journal, June 29, 1947, KCC.

268
“more blood and more allurement”:
EMF to Sprott, May 24, 1947, KCC.

269
“a charming place for rich Americans”:
EMF, American Journal, April 20, 1947, KCC; “The Raison d’Être of Criticism in the Arts,” in
Two Cheers for Democracy
, 47.

269
a “sketchy, uncomfortable, but somehow comforting” male place:
Roerick, “Forster and America,” in Oliver Stallybrass, ed.,
Aspects of E. M. Forster
.

269
“thousands and thousands of birch trees”:
Forster, “The United States,” in
Two Cheers
, 332.

269
“a highly refined stylized symbolized fertility rite”:
Burkat, “Letter from America,” 8.

269
“an unusual state”:
Forster,
Two Cheers
, 118.

270
“James or someone strumming”:
EMF to BB, May 15, 1947, KCC.

270
He encountered wondrous sights:
EMF, American Journal, n.d., 1947; EMF to BB, June 5, 1947, KCC.

270
“I don’t like to take your money”:
Forster, “The United States,” in
Two Cheers
, 334.

270
“not correct psychically”:
EMF to Sprott, May 29, 1947, KCC.

271
“I am just doing”:
EMF to BB, June 5, 1947, KCC.

271
“I have made an impression”:
EMF, American Journal, June 7, 1947, KCC.

271
“What a contrast”:
EMF to JRA, May 31, 1947, HRC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:224.

271
“the negroes don’t on the whole”:
EMF to Sprott, June 15, 1947, KCC.

271
“I have had breakfast”:
EMF to JRA, May 31, 1947, HRC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:224.

271
The second verse:
Correspondence with Mark Lancaster, March 10, 2007.

272
“All England convulsed”:
EMF, Locked Diary, June 22, 1935, KCC.

272
“We know how much”:
EMF, American Journal, May 19, 1947, KCC.

272
“where clothes are stolen”:
Ibid.

273
a “trigger-happy bruiser”:
Phelps, ed.,
Continual Lessons
, 180.

273
in “deepest Greenwich Village”:
EMF to JRA, May 31, 1947, HRC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:224.

273
“It is a charming place”:
EMF to Sprott, June 15, 1947, KCC.

273
cackling at the power of Morgan’s imagination:
Interview with Bernard Perlin, Pound Ridge, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2001.

273
“one of the great loves”:
Duberman,
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
, 326.

274
With his “fluttering black eyelashes”:
Bucknell, ed.,
Christopher Isherwood: Diaries
, I:210.

274
“the fruited plain”:
Chauncey,
Gay New York
, 182.

274
he reflected on “the kindness”:
EMF, American Journal, June 27, 1947, KCC.

274
He “felt to belong”:
Ibid.

274
“My diamond [insight]”:
EMF, American Journal, July, 14, 1947.

275
“into the fat hands”:
EMF, American Journal, June 29, 1947.

275
“in this kindest of lands”:
EMF, American Journal, July 12, 1947.

275
“the pinchability of Rubens”:
EMF to Monroe Wheeler, Oct. 2, 1945, Beinecke.

276
“present goodness warmth”:
EMF to JRA, April 11, 1951, HRC.

276
Morgan “disliked” Gore Vidal:
EMF to CI, June 25, 1948, Huntington.

276
“Bob’s indifference to me”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Oct. 8, 1948, KCC.

276
“After three miserable days”:
Ibid.; quoted in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:282.

277
He imagined that the reason:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 27, 1948, KCC.

278
“I
have
got so fat”:
EMF to PC, April 21, 1949, KCC.

278
He asked Morgan:
Britten to Henriette Bösmans, March 18, 1949; Mitchell et al., eds.,
Letters from a Life
, 499.

278
“a bleak little place”:
Forster, “George Crabbe: The Poet and the Man,” in Brett,
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes,
3.

278
“the sweetest people”:
EMF to WP; Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:282.

279
The adjoining room:
Humphrey Carpenter,
Benjamin Britten
, 257.

279
“For my dear Morgan”:
Mitchell et al., eds.,
Letters from a Life
, 363.

280
a “savage fisherman”:
Forster, “George Crabbe: The Poet and the Man,” in Brett,
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
, 4.

280
“such a feeling of nostalgia”:
Brett,
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
, 148.

280
“To talk about Crabbe”:
Forster, “George Crabbe: The Poet and the Man,” ibid., 3.

280
Crabbe’s “uncomfortable mind”:
Ibid., 10, 11.

280
the same “inner tension”:
Ibid., 18.

280
Morgan’s “revealing article”:
Britten, “On Receiving the First Aspen Award” (1964), in Humphrey Carpenter,
Benjamin Britten
, 156.

280
“Would you rather I loved”:
Pears’s Grimes monologue, quoted in Philip Brett, “Peter Grimes in Progress” in Brett,
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes,
50.

280
He quoted Crabbe directly:
Forster, “George Crabbe and Peter Grimes,” in
Two Cheers,
177.

281
whose “behavior was excusable”:
Pears, quoted in Brett,
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
, 57.

281
“The more I hear of it”:
Pears to Britten, letter 1189, Mitchell et al., eds.,
Letters from a Life
, 1.

281
a complicated, closeted opera:
Matthias, “The Haunting of Benjamin Britten,” 4.

281
“Music had a warmth”:
EMF, Diary, Nov. 5, 1963, KCC.

281
the same “telepathic and simultaneous” thought:
Britten quoted in Humphrey Carpenter,
Benjamin Britten
, 270.

281
to “keep human beings”:
EMF to Britten, Dec. 20, 1948, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:235.

281
“an old man who has experienced much”:
Forster, Crozier, and Britten,
Billy Budd
, 7.