signed
1944
by FORSTER, E.M
("E.M. Forster") in black ink on his Station Gomshall, West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking letterhead, June 22, 1944. 7" x 9"; 2 pages (l leaf recto and verso). Fine. To writer/actress Jeanne de Casalis Dear Miss de Casalis: Superb letter regarding making a film of his novel Howard's End. In part: ". . .I have found a slightly worthier edition of Howard's End*, which you will please accept.I was most interested in what you and Anthony Asquith said about filming the thing. My own instinct is that it wouldn't be suitable - only an instinct, for I know nothing about film. Howard's End is, for good and for evil, a literary book - much more so that A Passage to India. . .it is pro (a certain sort of) German: surely a bit of a snag in these days. . ." *Howard's End was not filmed until 1992.
(Inventory #: 604581)