9th July
In July 1933 he was thinking about whether Maurice would ever be published. He wrote to the writer Christopher Isherwood, expressing delight that he liked the novel so much. He agreed that 'if the pendulum keeps swinging in its present direction [if toleration of homosexuality increased] it might get published in time’. Meeting decent people, he said, helped him forget 'the millions of beasts and idiots who still prowl in the darkness, ready to gibber and devour’. (Source: Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank (London: Collins, 1983-1985), letter of 16 July 1933)
