Letter from E. M. Forster to John Lehmann (30/06/1940)

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[pre-printed letterhead] STATION GOMSHALL. WEST HACKHURST, ABINGER HAMMER, DORKING.

 

30-6-[19]40

 

Dear John,

 

I was sorry not to find you in yesterday afternoon at 4.30. - some[?] muddle.

 

However what I had to say about A's novel can [1 word illeg.] briefly here - it is Desmond's advice[.]

 

He says the 'bad' chapter should be submitted to the censor, or that Virginia*2 should just write to Harold Nicolson and ask him to arrange that it should go to a censor who is sensible[.]

 

Yours | E M Forster [signature]  [*handwritten tick*]

 

 

Endnotes

 

*1 Leonard Sidney Woolf 
*2 Virginia Woolf

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Letter from E. M. Forster to John Lehmann (30/06/1940)

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Forster writes that Ali feels the bad chapter should be submitted to a censor selected by Harold Nicolson via Virginia Woolf.

Handwritten letter signed by Forster