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305
“Peace Broke Out”:
Crisp,
The Naked Civil Servant
, 167.

305
“forecasts an allotment in Hell”:
EMF to WP, March 27, 1954, Durham.

305
a “vast ham”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 27, 1948.

306
“the vices of Sodom and Gomorrah”:
November 4, 1953, quoted in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:335, 334.

306
Newspapers were in a race:
Higgins,
Heterosexual Dictatorship
, 288–90. Higgins includes a facsimile of the article; Weeks,
Coming Out
, 163.

307
“Incomprehensible and utterly disgusting”:
Forster, “Society and the Homosexual: A Magistrate’s Figures,”
The New Statesman
, Oct. 31, 1953; Lord Samuels to EMF, Nov. 29, 1953, quoted in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:335.

307
The Wolfenden Report recommended:
Higgins,
Heterosexual Dictatorship
, 115. The recommendation was number one of nine.

307
“mild and aetiolated”:
Weeks,
Coming Out
, 156.

307
the “distasteful” subjects:
Wolfenden, June 20, 1955, in Higgins,
Heterosexual Dictatorship
, 15.

307
“I think the only thing we can do”:
Dr. Eustace Chesser, quoted ibid., 19.

308
homosexual behavior was “catching”:
Rev. Dr. Holland, quoted ibid., 26.

308
He was only one of a “number of homosexuals”:
Houlbrook,
Queer London
, 254. This is from an undated memo of the committee in the Public Records office.

308
a purported “orgy of perversion”:
Parker,
Ackerley
, 228–29. Coverage, including JRA’s letter, in
The Spectator
, Nov. (20 and 27) and Dec. (4 and 18), 1942.

308
“in the vanguard of darkness”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Oct. 12, 1939, KCC.

309
“Note in conclusion”:
Forster,
Maurice
, 220.

309
he wrote a letter to
The Times: The letter was printed in
The Times
, Dec. 11, 1959.

309
defended the honor of the “married women”:
EMF, Letter to
The Times
, May 9, 1958.

310
“The older one grows”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Oct. 27, 1958, KCC.

310
“the police here are filthy as anywhere”:
EMF, Locked Diary, July 11 to 17, 1964, KCC.

310
Bobbie’s “entrance arrangements were culpably slack”:
EMF to JRA, Jan. 7, 1958, HRC.

310
“Be frisky”:
EMF to JRA, n.d., Jan. 1958, HRC; quoted in Parker,
Ackerley
, 338.

310
“touched . . . his clothes”:
EMF, “Notes on the Future of Civilisation,” undated ms., KCC.

310
“[Liberace] is the summit of sex”: The Times
, June 12, 1959.

311
“cost me many years”:
Pyron,
Liberace
, 228.

311
“My feelings [about homosexuality]”: New York Times
, June 9, 1959, 43.

311
he had “laughed all the way to the bank”:
Pyron,
Liberace
, 168. The first instance of Liberace using this phrase is a letter dated to 1954. But he repeated it as a laugh line in his performances after the Cassandra case.

311
“very high literary merit”:
EMF, quoted in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:312.

311
“did D. H. Lawrence”:
EMF to JRA, Dec. 4, 1960, HRC.

311
“I am very excited”:
EMF to WP, Dec. 4, 1932, Durham.

312
“a handsome boy”:
JRA to EMF, n.d. [c. 1958], quoted in Parker,
Ackerley
, 402.

312
“I sometimes have the frightened feeling”:
EMF to WP, Jan. 4, 1956, Durham.

312
“He was everything to me”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 31, 1955, KCC.

312
“She has been as if dead”:
EMF to JRA, Thurs. [March 10, 1960], Lago and Furbank, eds.,
Selected Letters
, II:276; n.d., winter 1960–61, HRC; EMF to JRA, Oct. 16, 1961; quoted in Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:317.

313
the “very sad loss”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 1966, KCC; EMF to JRA, Aug. 4, 1960, HRC.

313
“seven feet tall”:
LK to CI, April 26, 1950, Huntington.

313
“sitting side by side”:
EMF, Locked Diary, April 14, 1962, KCC.

313
“Little Clive”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Jan. 16, 1962, KCC.

314
“Dec. 25. Thinking of Mary’s wretched life”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 25, 1962, KCC.

314
“As soon as a man”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Jan. 16, 1962, KCC.

314
“the joyful resurgence”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Jan. 7, 1963, KCC.

314
“The worm that never dies”:
EMF, Locked Diary, April 21, 1962, KCC.

314
“not the least afraid of dying”:
EMF to Eric Fletcher, Sept. 24, 1951, KCC.

314
“I was told the Dead were upstairs”:
Gardner, ed.,
Commonplace Book
, 227.

315
“convinced me that death is nothing”:
Ibid., 231.

315
“No pain, no fear”:
Ibid.

315
“A stroke”:
Ibid., 256.

315
to “see the light of night”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 1, 1961, KCC.

315
the “enigmatic mass”:
Forster, “Little Imber” ms., KCC.

316
William began gathering “autobiographicalia”:
Plomer, “Notes Toward a Biography,” Plomer archive, Durham.

316
“M. said he wanted it made clear”:
Ibid.

316
“the undocumented, invisible”:
Duffy,
Voices of Morebath
, 67.

316
“I want to love a strong young man”:
EMF, Sex Diary [c. 1935, emended 1959], KCC.

317
He had “disintegrated”:
EMF, Locked Diary, Dec. 1, 1961, KCC.

317
“endless abusive exchanges with bus conductors”:
Daley to Furbank, Nov. 24, 1968.

317
“Every one in the long run”:
Ibid.

317
“triangular correspondence “:
Parker,
Ackerley
, 424.

318
“easy and pleasant”:
EMF to JRA, Nov. 14, 1966, HRC; quoted in Parker,
Ackerley
, 427.

318
it “would have been balanced better”:
EMF to WP, April 4, 1943, Durham.

319
One version of the book:
Parker,
Ackerley
, 316, 317.

319
“How I do agree with you”:
EMF to WP, Oct. 29, 1968, Durham; the book was published after Ackerley’s death, in Sept. 1968.

319
“I should have been a more famous writer”:
EMF, Sex Diary [n.d., c. 1965], KCC.

320
“Let us pretend”:
Plomer, “Forster as a Friend,” in Oliver Stallybrass, ed.,
Aspects of E. M. Forster
, 104.

320
“He believed—literally”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:295.

320
“it seemed perfectly right”:
Plomer, “Forster as a Friend,” in Oliver Stallybrass, ed.,
Aspects of E. M. Forster
, 101–2.

320
“With his integrity and intelligence”:
Forster, “A View Without a Room” in
A Room with a View
, 212.

320
“When they begin to sing”:
Furbank,
E. M. Forster
, II:297.

321
“It was a grey day”:
EMF, Locked Diary, June 26, 1964, KCC.

321
“The butterfly was a moving glint”:
Ibid.

322
“The poor Bucks”:
CI to WP, May 6, 1967, Durham.

322
“reverted to the ‘beautiful friendship’ theory”:
John Morris to WP, Aug. 23, 1972, Durham.

322
“Had it not occurred to them”:
Ibid.

323
whose “defence at any last Judgement”:
EMF to Forrest Reid, March 13, 1915, KCC.

 
Bibliography
 
ARCHIVES

Beinecke: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (Lynes, Wescott, Wheeler)

Columbia: Columbia University Archives (Trilling)

Durham: Durham University Archives (Plomer and Morris)

HRC: Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin (Ackerley, British Society for Sex Psychology, Darling)

Huntington: Christopher Isherwood Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, California

KCC: King’s College Modern Archives, Cambridge University (Buckinghams, Dickinson, Forster, Sprott, Strachey)

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Kirstein Papers (Kirstein and Martinez)

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

David Adkins (Roerick and Coley)

Gwyneth Barger (Harold Barger)

Mollie Barger (Florence Barger, Evert Barger, Mollie Barger)

P. N. Furbank (Daley)

PUBLICATIONS

Ackerley, J. R.
E. M. Forster: A Portrait
. London: Ian McKelvie, 1970.

———, ed.
Escapers All
. London: Bodley Head, 1932.

———.
Hindoo Holiday.
New York: Viking, 1932.

———.
My Dog Tulip
. New York: Poseidon Press, 1965.

———.
My Father and Myself
. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1968.

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