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Draft of a script for the BBC radio program "Some Books" : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
432889
Accession number
MA 23473
Creator
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1946.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (9 pages) ; 22.3 x 18.2 cm
Notes
This is a draft of Forster's "Some Books" talk for 20 November 1946.
Contains extensive autograph edits.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2519, lot 170, 10 October 2019.
Summary
Discussing two works of non-fiction written in the wake of the Second World War, Stephen Spender's European Witness and Rex Warner's The Cult of Power.