BIB_ID
193281
Accession number
MA 4806
Creator
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
Display Date
Cambridge, England, 1959 June 29.
Credit line
Purchased, 1993.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.4 cm. + with envelope.
Notes
Written from King's College, Cambridge" on its stationery.
Envelope with postage and postmark to "J. Knapp-Fisher / 29 Wilton Place / S.W" and addressed to him "Dear Jim."
Envelope with postage and postmark to "J. Knapp-Fisher / 29 Wilton Place / S.W" and addressed to him "Dear Jim."
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Summary
Discussing Nabokov's Lolita, which Knapp-Fisher has lent him: "I am reading it with delight and with amusement, and occasionally shaking with laughter. The indecencies and obscenities are not in my line and are sometimes even repellent, but I cannot get upset at them when they are connected with so much civilization and wit, nor can I start wondering whether the book 'ought' to be banned or not...."
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