Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FORSTER, E.M. Holograph manuscript. "The Treasures of Cambridge." 5 pages, 8vo, rectos only (but last page with crossed-out and abandoned early draft portion on verso), incorporating manuscript revisions and with additional manuscript editorial clarifications in unknown hand, condition very good, folded for mailing. Cambridge, nd, c. 1930s
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A description of an likely mid-1930s exhibition of Cambridge's cultural artifacts of note: "A Cambridge resident myself, I got on the London train as soon as this exhibition opened. And perused the objects that had preceded me to the metropolis...When I entered Goldsmith's Mall I was welcomed by local sounds as well as by local sights...Fancy my coming all this way to see what I might have seen at home." Forster lists highlights of his visit, including a bust of Charles II, various paintings, "and - more moving than all of them emotionally - is Essex Cup itself."