British writer (1879–1970) best known for such novels as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Two ALSs, one page and one page both sides on individual 4.5 x 7 sheets of Station Comshall letterhead, dated September 1 and September 6 of 1936. Forster writes to Mrs. Winifred Fontana, wife of Ralph Fontana, of the British Consul in Aleppo, Syria, sending thanks for her letters and seeking to arrange a get-together with her and her daughter, adding some concern that “You don't say how you are feeling….If it wasn't troubling you too much, I'd like to bring down some of the letters which are puzzling me, particularly Hogarth's, and ask you one or two questions. I can't make out the date of the first Carchemish visit but believe with you that is was Autumn 1910,” continuing in the second letter, six months later, thanking her for sending her son-in-law to meet him when he arrives at “T. [Tunbridge] Wells tomorrow at 3:30,” adding “I will bring a few letters with me - to Hogarth and others - and mark my difficulties. I wish I knew what Carchemish looked like!” In fine condition. These letters probably related to the English archeologist and scholar David George, who was associated with T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), and conducted archeological excavations in Syria in the early 20th century. Mrs. Fontana, having undoubted contextual knowledge of Syria, may have been able to provide Forster with certain background information about those letters insofar as they related to T. E. Lawrence's correspondence with Hogarth and their respective dealings in Carchemish, a frontier between Turkey and Syria that was the site of an important battle between the Babylonians and Egyptians mentioned in the Bible. RRAuction COA.
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