Literary
FORSTER
(Edward Morgan, 1879-1970, Novelist & Essayist, Author of 'A Passage to India')
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Harvey,
thanking her for her letter and charming present... I don't know The Elm Grove, or that Lee Boo poem, and accept the book with much pleasure. I have several others of the type Anna Ross, Grove Cottage, and so on - mostly belonging to my mother, and I keep them in a little book case which belonged to her as a child. The Elm Grove will join them..., 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, King's College headed paper, 23rd October
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Background
The poem by “Lee Boo”, perhaps means the great Chinese poet Li Po, the poem which Ezra Pound famously rendered as “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”. The three books that Forster mentions are all from the early nineteenth-century, and by women writers: The Elm Grove; or, The History of the Campbell Family, printed by the Minerva Press in London in 1816; Anna Ross: A Story for Children by the novelist Grace Kennedy (1782-1825), published in Edinburgh in 1824; and Grove Cottage, a book of fiction by Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson (1801-1863), apparently published first in the 1820s by John Harris in London.
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