Bidspirit auction | FORSTER E.M.: (1879-1970)

FORSTER E.M.: (1879-1970) - FORSTER E.M.: (1879-1970) English author whose works include A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924), all of which were made into films. A poignant A.L.S., E. M. Forster , one page, small 8vo, West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking (Surrey), 18th October 1946, to Miss. Jordan, evidently a veterinary surgeon. Forster states that he should be ´glad if you would come over one day in the early half of next week, and put our dear old cat away´ , explaining that Wednesday would be the best day, or if not Tuesday ( ´but in no case later than Wednesday´ ) and further remarking ´He is quite happy and cheerful, and I don´t want to upset him by a journey to Dorking, so please will you bring the necessary apparatus with you´ . VG From 1925 until his mother, Alice Clare, died at age 90 on 11th March 1945, Forster lived with her in Abinger Hammer at West Hackhurst, the house designed by his father, the architect Eddie Morgan Forster, and previously occupied by his aunt Laura. Forster left the property for Cambridge in November 1946, the month after the present letter was written, as the landlord refused to renew the lease.