A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (60 page)

114
The third figure:
Ibid., 217.

115
a “ghastly old boy”:
EMF to FB, Aug. 10, 1915, KCC; Forster, “Notes on
Maurice
,” in
Maurice
, 217; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:229.

115
“unfair on Clive”:
Forster, “Notes on
Maurice
,” in
Maurice
, 217.

115
“it bored him dumb”:
EMF to Forrest Reid, March 13, 1915, KCC.

115
“Hugh can’t again”:
EMF to FB, Aug. 10, 1915, KCC.

115
“I have talked to you so much”:
EMF to FB, June 29, 1914, KCC.

115
“a new and painful world”:
EMF to FB, March 28, 1915, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:223.

115
“I am so happy that”:
EMF to FB, April 27, 1915, KCC.

116
“beautiful . . . the best work”:
EMF to Dent, June 13, 1915, KCC.

116
Morgan entrusted his most heartfelt discussion:
Ibid.

116
“My smooth spurt is over”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 17, 1913, KCC.

116
“3 unfinished novels”:
Ibid.

116
“Forward rather than back”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1913, KCC.

116
“the Scudder part”:
GLD to EMF, Dec. 11, 1914, KCC.

116
“breaks my heart almost”:
Ibid.

116
“are on a basis”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1914, KCC.

117
“sublimated . . . sublime”:
Taylor,
The Green Avenue
, 104.

117
“Dear Reid . . . My perspicacity”:
EMF to Forrest Reid, March 13, 1915, KCC.

118
“
To give these people a chance”:
Ibid.

119
“I should have prophesied”:
LS to EMF, March 12, 1915, in Levy, ed.,
The Letters of Lytton Strachey
, 246.

119
“I really think the whole conception”:
Ibid.

119
more than he “would have liked”:
EMF to LS, March 14, 1915, KCC.

119
“No one ever breaks”:
EMF to LS, Nov. 1, 1913, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:208.

119
“You can scarcely imagine”:
EMF to Dent, March 6, 1915, KCC.

119
“My work is all wrong”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Aug. 1, 1914, KCC.

120
“[I] do not think”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1914, KCC.

120
“a sandy haired passionate Nibelung”:
EMF to Forrest Reid, Jan. 23, 1915, KCC.

120
it “is a beautiful book”:
Frieda Lawrence to EMF, Feb. 5, 1915, KCC.

120
“you belied and betrayed”:
DHL to EMF, Jan. 28, 1915, KCC.

120
“In [your] books”:
DHL to EMF, Wednesday [Feb. 3] 1915, KCC.

121
It emerged that Lawrence’s:
DHL to Bertrand Russell, Feb. 12, 1915, Boulton, Zytaruk, et al., eds.,
Letters of D. H. Lawrence
, II:283.

121
Lawrence told a friend:
DHL to Barbara Low, Feb. 11, 1915, ibid., II: 280.

121
“which is beautiful”:
EMF to Dent, March 6, 1915, KCC.

121
In his diary, Morgan:
EMF, Locked Diary, Sept. 9, 1915, KCC.

121
“up till the last moment”:
Proctor, ed.,
Autobiography of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
, 189.

121
“Don’t say ‘face facts’”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:2.

122
“What’s to occupy me”:
EMF to GLD, Dec. 13, 1914, KCC.

122
“I am leading the life”:
EMF to FB, Aug. 10, 1915, KCC.

123
“a very pale, delicately-built young man”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:25. The speaker is the daughter of Aida Borchgrevink.

123
Zealous self-described “brigades”:
Gullace, “White Feathers and Wounded Men,” 178.

123
He had rebuffed:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:19.

124
“Who’s for the khaki suit”:
Jessie Pope, 1915.
In Flanders Fields: Poetry of the First World War
, ed. George Walter. London: Allen Lane, 2004, 21.

124
“khaki of sorts”:
Forster, “The Lost Guide,” in
Alexandria
, 355.

124
“My uniform is well received”:
Forster, “Incidents of War Notebook,” KCC.

125
found her “shrewish”:
EMF to ACF, Nov. 21, 1915, KCC.

125
“mother was too much against it”:
EMF to FB, Aug. 10, 1915, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:229.

125
“All one can do”:
EMF to Masood, July 29, 1915; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:224.

125
“a vague scheme for a book”:
EMF to GLD, April 5, 1916, KCC.

126
“This room contains nothing of beauty”:
Forster,
Alexandria
, 94, 95, 97.

126
the “specimen is not even”:
Ibid., 121.

126
“One can’t dislike Alex”:
EMF to ACF, Nov. 21, 1915, KCC.

126
From his “comfortable” room:
EMF to Masood, Dec. 29, 1915, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:232.

127
Forster was unaware:
See Dunne, “Sexuality and the Civilizing Process.”

128
It was “unthinkable”:
This was Judge A. C. McBarnet. See ibid., 191–92.

128
The first friend:
EMF to EC, April 13, 1916 (“I knew [Furness] slightly” at King’s), KCC.

128
“I have long been a policeman”:
Robert Furness to Maynard Keynes, April 25, 1907, KCC.

128
For Furness, the city:
Dunne notes in “Sexuality and the Civilizing Process,” “In 1910, 786 boys and 1,477 girls had been intercepted at the Port, and they probably represented a small fraction of the sexual commerce in the town.” 183.

128
Like many British gentlemen:
EMF, Mohammed el Adl Notebook, KCC.

128
“frugal, pungent” style:
Furness, Introductory Note,
Poems of Callimachus
, xii.

128
The little vignettes:
Furness stayed in Egypt all his professional life. He was the head of the Egyptian Boy Scout League, and later a professor of literature at Fuad University in Cairo. Furness married in his sixties and had a daughter late in life, in England. He died in 1954.

129
“what the inhabitants”:
Forster,
Alexandria
, 354.

129
“I went to the Red Cross”:
Ibid., 355.

129
the “ambitious and westernising Ottoman”:
Haag,
Alexandria
, 9.

129
“a good deal of horse racing”:
Forster,
Alexandria
, 355.

129
“the only buildings”: Baedeker’s Egypt
, 16.

130
“handsomely fitted up”:
Ibid., 9.

130
“I . . . start out”:
EMF to Masood, Dec. 29, 1915, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:232.

130
“intense and unbelievable blue”:
Forster,
Alexandria
, 354.

130
“coalesced into a set”:
Ibid., 355.

130
“cerebral and ruffled heron”:
Grafftey-Smith,
Bright Levant
, 70.

130
“discarding my uniform . . . [to] plunge”:
EMF to Masood, Dec. 29, 1915, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:233.

130
“symbolizes for me a mixture”:
Forster,
Alexandria
, 355–56.

131
Anastassiades, a cotton broker:
EMF to Virginia Woolf, April 15, 1916, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:234.

131
“All that I cared for”:
EMF to Masood, Dec. 29, 1915, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:233.

131
“I imagine it is here”:
EMF to Virginia Woolf, Apr. 15, 1916, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:234.

132
“I came inclined”:
EMF to Malcolm Darling, Aug. 6, 1916, HRC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:238–39.

132
“so pleasant and grateful”:
EMF to Masood, Dec. 29, 1915, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:234.

132
One young private:
Forster, “Incidents of War Notebook,” KCC.

133
“After giving careful evidence”:
Ibid.

133
“‘I’m awfully interested in ideas’”:
EMF to GLD, July 28, 1916, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:237.

133
“If one does get news”:
EMF to Masood, Dec. 29, 1915, Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:232.

134
“little nameless unremembered acts”:
Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey,” ll. 34–35.

134
The conscription that the Red Cross:
Four months after this initial call, the act was revised to include married men; by April 1917, it was expanded still further to include men discharged because of wounds or illness. Eventually, by April 1918, all men between the ages of seventeen and fifty-one were required to register for the draft. I am grateful to Laura Harbold for her research on conscription.

135
Only his friends:
EMF to FB, July 2, 1916, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:235.

135
“I am quite shameless”:
EMF to ACF, July 10, 1916, KCC.

135
“a splendid creature”:
EMF to FB, July 2, 1916, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:235.

136
“[w]e must have a numerous”:
Forster, “Incidents of War Notebook,” KCC.

136
“I was bathing myself”:
EMF to GLD, July 28, 1916, KCC; Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, I:237.

136
“It’s evidently not to be in our day”:
Ibid.

137
“Come here Mustafa Pasha”:
Forster, “Gippo English,”
Egyptian Mail
, Dec. 16, 1919, 2; quoted in Haag,
Alexandria
, 26.