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    <unittitle>E. M. Forster papers</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091231" source="naf">Forster, E. M (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970</persname>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1936/1968" type="inclusive">1936-1968</unitdate>
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<p>Cataloged.</p>  </arrangement>
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<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>E.M. Forster's Christmas cards to Melville Henry Crane, n.d., and his letters to Walter D'Arcy Cresswell, 1936, and Duncan Grant, 1968. Also, a manuscript of Forster's review of G.M. Trevelyan's A LAYMAN'S LOVE, 1954; a mimeographed typescript of Robert Pocock's radio script"E.M. Forster : A Profile" 1965, and photographs of Forster.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); E. M. Forster papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--Crane, Melville. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1962. Accession number--M-62.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Novelist.</p>  </bioghist>
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<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025307" source="lcsh">Christmas cards</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043783" source="lcsh">English literature -- 20th century</subject>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009852" source="lcsh">Authors, English</subject>
    <persname source="lcsh">Crane, Melville Henry</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50018814" source="naf">Cresswell, Walter D'Arcy, 1896-1960</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82211425" source="naf">Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50011776" source="naf">Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006123403" source="naf">Pocock, Robert, 1907-</persname>
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