FORSTER WRITES FROM ALEXANDRIA IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR FORSTER (E. M., 1879-1970, Author of ‘A Passage to India’)

Autograph Letter Signed in pencil to Mr Plant, commenting that “This seems very foolish. Here are you in Alex and I who never leave it am at Cairo and have further complicated life by spraining my ancle [sic]...” he hopes to be back soon and is “not now going to Port Said which is a good thing. Mr Britling is travelling after you... and in my bag is My Days and Dreams and a book of my own which I was bringing to Port Said...”, Ministry of Education, Khedivieh School, Cairo, 3rd February

In 1914, he visited Egypt, Germany and India with the classicist Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, by which time he had written all but one of his novels. As a conscientious objector in the First World War, Forster served as a Chief Searcher (for missing servicemen) for the British Red Cross in Alexandria, Egypt. Though conscious of his repressed desires, it was only then, while stationed in Egypt, that he "lost his R [respectability]" to a wounded soldier in 1917.

Item Date:  1917

Stock No:  42248      £475

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