FORSTER, E. M. Autograph letter signed to Denton Welch, West Hackhurst, May 1943, 2 pages, small 4°. A fine letter containing fulsome and detailed praise for Maiden Voyage. “The book held me so well that I kept on forgetting it was ‘only life’, and began judging it as a novel … The sensations must work on coarser duller material now, and the real standards, in distinction to the edifying imposed standards, must be maintained”. By the same post he has received Mrs Sydney Webb’s reminiscences: “I have postponed her, I must say. I felt she was able, and even willing, to wait”.