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Samuel Henley : Appendix no. 2

Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discovered by later explorers, from Samuel Henley's Appendix to Edward Daniel Clarke, 'The Tomb of Alexander' (1805). Underneath, Forster notes: 'This is the first entry I have made since the death of my mother, today three months in her grave.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

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