10th April
In April 1921 he was thinking quizzically about Indian customs. While working as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas, he wrote to Cambridge don Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson that he had seen a 'farce’ at the Palace. A husband and wife were debating the propriety of her going to see her family. 'As soon as the husband says 'I want a eunuch – at once.’ (Source: Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank (London: Collins, 1983-1985), letter of 10 April 1921)
