#christopher isherwood
I am trying to thin down my books. But not these ones.
Beautiful reissue from Picador, Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader, edited by Don Bachardy and James P. White.
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W[est] H[ackhurst] 1-9-39
Dearest Christopher,
Sergt Button [i.e. Bob] and self rang your mother up on the 29th and urged her and Richard to get off at once. So I feel and indeed think I was useful. We didn’t write to Heinz as B[ob] thought that even if the p[ost] c[ard] got through to him it would do him no good.
I know you want to know how I feel. Well I cried bit when my mother paid her usual morning call to my bedroom, and I’m a little irritable and hysterical but not at all bad. I am going to write some notes on Beethoven’s Sonatas, and have bought a 2/- book rather than a 4/6 one to write about the war in in. Sweden cancelled. I am rather at a loose end. Poor Mrs Barger is here, wearing herself and others out, about her tiresome neurotic daughter, who, against her orders, has been dumped by her bossy son in a mental retreat.
It is going to be awful here expect. Whatever one does is wrong. So do not come back here, that is the wrongest.
Love, Morgan
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Letter from E. M. Forster to Christopher Isherwood, who at the time had already moved to California; Bob is Bob Buckingham, Forster’s boyfriend, Heinz is Heinz Neddermeyer, Isherwood’s German (ex-)boyfriend, they had been forcefully seperated two years earlier when Heinz had been arrested by the Gestapo while trying to flee military draft, Richard is Isherwood’s brother
