1st June
In June 1927 he was thinking about Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. He wrote to her about it from Cambridge, where he was 'taking my part in the Life of the College [King’s]’, and 'not enjoying it very much’. He pronounced the novel 'awfully sad, very beautiful both in (non-radiant) colour and shape’, and noted how it combined the 'uneasiness’ and the 'excitement’ of life. He added that his mother was sure it was her best book – 'she took to it immensely’. (Source: Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank (London: Collins, 1983-1985), letter of 5 June 1927)
