Bundle of photocopied letters from Philip Larkin to Monica Jones

This material is held atHull University Archives, Hull History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 50 U DX341/22
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1965
  • Physical Description
    • 1 bundle, 96 letters

Scope and Content

Including:

Letter enclosing TS draft of 'Laboratory Monkeys', 24 Feb. 1965.

Letters mentioning the Fortune Press's republishing of The North Ship, 13 May, 10 June 1965.

Letter mentioning Faber readvertising The Whitsun Weddings on the strength of it being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1965, 26 May 1965.

Letter mentioning sales of Larkin's sound recording for the Marvell Press of The Less Deceived, 30 May 1965.

Letter discussing Larkin's correspondence with the Times Literary Supplement on the subject of anthology fees, 17 Aug. 1965.

Letter discussing the process whereby The Whitsun Weddings was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1965, 14 Aug. 1965.

Letter mentioning correspondence with Oxford University Press concerning the editorship of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse [published as the Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, 1973], 16 Nov. 1965.

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