Signed first edition copy of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924) with autograph letter to Mrs Baird
Single Item
MS. 21490
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Signed first edition copy of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924) with quotation from Walt Whitman poem and autograph letter to Mrs Baird, 11 Jan 1929. Also inscribed to Margaret A. Baird from Edward Pila.
Dates
- Creation: 1924-1929
Extent
1 volume
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
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Shelfmark:
MS. 21490
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 21490
Abstract
Signed first edition copy of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924) with autograph letter to Mrs Baird, 1929.
Biographical / Historical
For full details, see entry for Forster, Edward Morgan (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Wolfson College, Oxford, as part of the Stallworthy Poetry Prize appeal, 2020.
Subject
- Title
- Catalogue of signed first edition copy of E.M. Forster's (1924) with autograph letter to Mrs Baird, 1929
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Rachael Marsay
- Date
- 2022
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Catalogued with the generous support of the Roy Davids bequest
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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