Philip Larkin

by Philip Larkin

  Bird, Stanley (Berrystead), 1, 2n, 3, 4

  Birmingham Post, 1 and n, 2n

  Biro, 1, 2, 3n

  birthday cards, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7n, 8, 9

  ‘Bish’ or ‘the Bish’ (Frank Smith), 1, 2n, 3

  Bisson, Isabella Jane, 1, 2

  blackbird, 1, 2

  Blackmore, Richard, Lorna Doone, 1n

  Blackwell’s Bookshop, 1, 2

  ‘Blak Pussy’ (Kitty’s nightdress case), 1, 2n, Plate 11B

  Blake, William, 1; L’s bookplate, 1;

  Muses’ Library edn, 1;

  Poetical Sketches, 1;

  An Introduction to Blake, Max Plowman, 1

  Bletchley Park, 1

  Bloomfield, Barry, Larkin Bibliography, 1n, 2n

  Blunden, Edmund, 1, 2n, 3

  Bodleian Library, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; L asks for the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley and Paintings, 1;

  dinner with Librarian, 1

  Bogart, Humphrey, 1

  Bone, Gavin, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6; Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Essay, with Specimen Translations in Verse, 1, 2n, 3

  bookplate, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Booth, James, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5n, 6n

  Boots Subscription Library, 1, 2

  ‘Born Yesterday’, 1n

  Bottomley, Horatio, 1

  Bournemouth, 1, 2n

  Bowen, Elizabeth, The Death of the Heart, 1

  Bowman, Ruth (later Siverns), 1, 2, 3 and n, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n, 11; holiday with L in Dorset, 1

  Box, Eden, picture postcard, The Lady of the Manor, 1

  Boy Friend, The (musical), 1

  Bradford, Richard, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5n, 6n

  Brain, Sir Walter Russell, 1

  Brasenose College, Oxford, 1, 2

  bread units (BUs; rationing), 1, 2n

  Brennan, Maeve, 1, 2n, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n, 13, 14; L’s correspondence with, 1n;

  passes library examination, 1;

  irritated at being called Mauve, 1;

  ‘magnetises’ L to a dance, 1 and n;

  hosts Oxfam party, 1;

  recommends Pearson Park Old People’s Home for Eva, 1

  Brett, Raymond, 1, 2

  Brett-Smith, Herbert Francis, 1, 2

  British Restaurant, 1, 2n, 3

  Broad Street, Oxford, 1, 2

  Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, 1, 2n, 3

  Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 1n

  Brooke, Rupert, 1, 2

  Brough, 1

  Brown, Philip, 1n, 2n, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7

  Browning, Robert, The Ring and the Book, 1

  Brush, The (The Brush Company, Loughborough), 1, 2n, 3, 4n

  Brussels, school trip, 1

  Buckingham Palace, 1, 2; picture postcard, 1

  ‘Building, The’, 1, 2

  Bunny, village, 1, ‘Bunny news’, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n;

  Bunny scrapbook, 1

  Burchell, Joyce, 1 and n, 2

  Burchell, Mrs (landlady), 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9

  Burnett Hall family (neighbours), 1n, 2, 3

  Burton, A. A. C., 1, 2n

  Busby Hall, 1

  Butler, Samuel, 1, 2; Erewhon, 1, 2n;

  The Way of All Flesh, 1

  butterfly, 1

  Buttrey, Mr (Wellington Library Committee), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  cabbage (raw), 1, 2, 3

  Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, The, 1

  Café Royal, 1

  Cally, Gatehouse of Fleet, 1, 2, 3

  Cambridge, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4, 5

  Cann, John (friend of Sydney Larkin), 1 and n, 2, 3 and n, 4, 5

  Cape, Jonathan, 1

  Carlton Club, 1

  Carlton Hayes Hospital, 1, 2

  Carlyle, Thomas, ‘Heroes and Hero Worship’, 1

  Carrickfergus, 1

  Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall), 1

  Cashmore, H. M. (Birmingham City Librarian), 1 and n, 2

  Castle Bromwich, 1

  cats and kittens, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6; photographing a cat, 1;

  cat mask, 1;

  library stray, 1, 2;

  ‘Beauty’, Kitty’s cat, 1;

  cat picture postcards, 1, 2, 3;

  kitten picture postcards, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (3), 6, 7, 8

  Cavendish, Lady Elizabeth, 1, 2

  CBE, 1, 2, 3

  Cecil, Lord David, 1, 2

  Cézanne, Paul, The Smoker, 1

  Chambers, Harry, 1

  Chambers, Jessie (‘E. T.’), D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record, 1

  Chambers’ Encyclopaedia, 1, 2

  Charles, Prince, picture postcard, 1

  Charley’s Aunt, 1, 2n

  Chatto & Windus, 1

  Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard, 1; The Seagull, 1

  ‘Chelsea Pensioner’ (Nellie), 1, 2

  Cherry Orchard, Lichfield, 1, 2

  Cherwell, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; L college agent for, 1, 2

  Chinese restaurants, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  chocolate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8

  Christ, 1, 2

  Christ Church College, Oxford, 1, 2

  Christ Church Meadows, 1, 2, 3

  Christie, Agatha, 1n, 2; Three Act Tragedy, 1

  Christmas, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n, 12n, 13, 14, 15n, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21n, 22, 23, 24 and n, 25, 26, 27n, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34; Christmas Abatement Society, 1;

  Christmas cards, 1, 2 and n, 3n, 4;

  L receives ‘about 80’ cards (1971), 1;

  St John’s College cards, 1;

  National Trust cards, 1

  ‘Church Going’, 1

  Church Times, The, 1n, 2, 3

  Churchill, Winston, 1, 2, 3

  Churston Ferrers, near Brixham, 1

  cigarette case, 1, 2

  Clemerson’s, 1, 2, 3n

  clothes moths, 1

  Cohen, Henry, Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, 1

  Colbourne, Bob, 1, 2

  Coleman, Mrs (Eva’s neighbour), 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6

  Collins, Arthur, 1, 2n

  Comfort, Alex, 1 and n

  ‘Coming’, 1, 2, 3n

  Compton Lectureship in Poetry, 1n, Betjeman declines lecturehip, 1;

  C. Day Lewis, 1;

  Richard Murphy, 1, 2n

  Condon, Eddie, 1n

  Connolly, Cyril, 1; The Condemned Playground, 1

  Conquest, Robert: edits New Lines, 1; visits L in Fielden House, London, 1;

  visits L in Hull, 1;

  L visits Conquest in London, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘Kim Novak’ postcard from Hollywood, 1;

  invitation to his third wedding, 1

  conscientious objection: Sydney Larkin, 1; Ernest Roe, 1;

  Jim Sutton, 1, 2, 3

  Constable, John, ‘The Valley of the Stour’, picture postcard, 1, 2n

  Cooper, William (Harry S. Hoff), 1

  Corelli, Marie, 1, 2n

  Cork, 1

  Cornford, Frances, 1

  Cottingham, 1n, 2, 3n; 4; Needler Hall, 1, 2;

  L’s lodgings in, 1n:

  Holtby House, 1; 2

  Hallgate, 1;

  192A Hallgate, 1, 2n;

  picture postcards: St Mary’s Church, 1n;

  The Lawns, 1, 2

  Country Life, 1, 2

  Coveney, Peter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Poor Monkey: The Child in Literature, 1

  Coventry, 1, 2, 3, 4; blitz damage, 1, 2, 3;

  air-raid on station, 1;

  cathedral, 1;

  King Henry VIII School, 1, 2, 3n, 4;

  Coventrian school magazine, 1, 2n;

  see also ‘Penvorn’

  Coventry Telegraph, 1

  Cox, C. B., 1n, 2

  ‘Creature drawings’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7n, 8n, 9n, 10, 11n, 12; ‘Old Creature’ in a mob cap, 1 and n;

  ‘creech-haugh’, 1, 2;

  Eva’s drawings, 1n, 2, 3;

  ‘wild Mop’, 1 and n

  ‘Creatures who tremble every day’, 1

  Cresset Press, 1

  cricket, see Larkin, Phil
ip

  Crispin, Edmund, see Montgomery, Bruce

  Cuming, Agnes (Hull Librarian), 1

  Daily Dispatch, 1, 2

  Daily Express, 1

  Daily Herald, 1

  Daily Sketch, 1

  Daily Telegraph, 1, 2, 3, 4; letter about unheated trains, 1;

  L’s jazz reviews, 1n, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Daily Worker, 1

  Dalgarno, Alec, 1, 2n; L best man at his wedding, 1

  Davie, Donald, 1 and n; 2 and n, 3n

  Davie, Ian, 1n, 2, 3n

  Davis, Bette, Now, Voyager, 1

  Dawes, Edwin A., 1 and n

  Day, Arthur (Eva’s brother, married to Nellie), d. 1941, 1, 2n

  Day, Eva (Nellie’s daughter), 1, 2, 3

  Day, Nellie (‘Auntie Nellie’; Eva’s sister-in-law), 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n, 11, 12, 13 and n, 14n, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; at L’s graduation, 1;

  holidays with Eva, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5n, 6n, 7;

  Eva considers moving to Hyde, 1n;

  her photographs, 1;

  L photographs her, 1;

  visits Eva, 1, 2;

  offers to take Eva in at Christmas, 1;

  sends L a Valentine, 1;

  ill, 1; 2

  Day, William (Eva’s father), 1n

  Day Lewis, Cecil, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5; form of name, 1n;

  appointed Laureate, 1n;

  first Compton Lecturer, 1, 2;

  L’s opinion of his poems, 1;

  honorary D.Litt. at Hull, 1, 2, 3;

  heart attack, 1;

  dies, 1n

  De Wint, Peter, 1, 2n

  Deeping, Warwick, 1

  Dekker, Thomas, 1

  Delisle, Françoise, Friendship’s Odyssey: The Autobiography of Françoise Delisle and the Story of Havelock Ellis from 1916 to 1939, 1, 2n

  Desert Island Discs, 1

  Dewey decimal system, 1

  Dexter, Mrs (friend of Eva), 1, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5, 6

  Dickens, Charles, Our Mutual Friend, 1

  Dickens, Monica, 1

  Dietrich, Marlene, Shanghai Express, 1, 2n

  ‘Disintegration’, 1n

  dogs: in Wellington Library, 1; at Bellingham Show, 1, 2;

  Zimba, 1, 2n, 3n, 4;

  collie in Pearson Park, 1;

  picture postcards: ‘A Young Cocker’, 1;

  Labrador puppy, 1;

  Landseer, ‘Dignity and Impudence’, 1

  Dolmen Press, 1n, 2n

  Donaghadee, 1, 2

  donkey, picture postcard, 1

  Donne, John, 1; Devotions, 1;

  Nonesuch edn, 1

  Dorchester, 1; picture postcards: High Street, 1;

  Hardy statue, 1

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Possessed, 1, 2n

  Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1

  Du Cann, Edward, 1; Chairman of Conservative Party, 1

  Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca, 1

  Dublin, 1, 2, 3, 4; L visits with Monica Jones, 1, 2;

  trip to hear Tristan and Isolde, 1;

  invited to Trinity College by Donald Davie, 1, 2

  duck, 1, 2; for Christmas dinner: Monica, 1;

  Eva, 1

  duffel or duffle coat, 1, 2, 3, 4; worn indoors, 1

  Duffin, Bill and Janet (neighbours), 1, 2n, 3, 4

  Dulac, Edmund, 1

  Dunn, Douglas, 1

  Dupénois, Georges, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5

  Durham University, 1

  Durrants Hotel, Manchester Square, London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Easington, 1

  Easter, 1, 2

  Ecclesiastes, 1, 2

  Eden, Anthony, 1 and n, 2

  Edinburgh, Duke of, 1

  Edward VII, King, 1

  eels, 1

  Egerton, Ansell, 1, 2n, 3, 4

  Egerton, Judy, 1n, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6n; visits L in Fielden House, 1

  Eisenstein, Sergei, 1

  Electroencephalogram (E.E.G.), 1

  Eliot, T. S., 1, 2, 3; L meets, 1, 2

  Elizabeth II, Queen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8n, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; picture postcard, Annigoni portrait, 1

  Ellington, Duke, 1

  Ellis, Havelock, see Delisle, Françoise

  Empson, William: reads in Hull, 1

  Encounter, 1n

  Ercall Hill, Wellington, 1

  Espinasse, Paul and Margaret, 1

  Esquire magazine, 1

  ‘Essential Beauty’, 1

  Esthwaite Water, picture postcard, 1

  Evening Standard, 1

  Evesham, 1, 2n, 3 and n

  Excerpta de Statutis, Oxford Regulations, 1

  Exeter College, Oxford, 1n; J.C.R., 1

  Eynsham, High Street, picture postcard, 1

  Faber & Faber, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; contract for A Girl in Winter, 1;

  changes title of A Girl in Winter, 1, 2n;

  republishes A Girl in Winter in paperback, 1,

  rejects In the Grip of Light, 1;

  reissues Jill, 1;

  The Whitsun Weddings, 1, 2;

  All What Jazz, 1, 2;

  Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions, ed. James Booth, 1n;

  Larkin at Sixty, ed. Anthony Thwaite, 1n

  ‘Faith Healing’, 1

  Fantasy Poets, no. 21, 1n

  Farrell, John G., 1, 2, 3n

  Fats Waller and his Buddies (record), 1n

  ferry, Ulster Monarch, picture postcard, 1

  Fielden House, London, 1

  final examination, 1, 2

  firewatching, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  flea, 1

  Flecker, James Elroy, ‘Hassan’, 1

  Folies Bergère, 1

  Folwell, Dennis, 1, 2n

  Folwell, Edith, 1 and n, 2, 3n, 4 and n, 5, 6, 7, 8n, 9

  Forster, E. M., 1; Howard’s End, 1;

  A Passage to India, 1

  Fortune Press, 1; Jill, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  The North Ship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  Poetry from Oxford in Wartime, 1, 2n, 3, 4n

  Freud, Sigmund, 1, 2

  ‘froggy’ (soft toy), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Kitty makes a ‘froggy’ for Eva, 1

  Gaitskell, Hugh, 1

  Garland, Patrick, 1

  Gauguin, Paul, 1

  Gentleman’s Relish, 1

  George V, King, 1

  Ghost Train, The, 1

  Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1, 2

  Gibbons, Stella, Cold Comfort Farm, 1

  ‘Ginger Puss’ or ‘Ginger Pussy’ (Eva Larkin), 1, 2

  Giotto, 1

  Girl in Winter, A (The Kingdom of Winter retitled by Faber), 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8 and n, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; name of heroine, 1, 2, 3;

  Bruce Montgomery’s opinion, 1;

  L compares Jill with A Girl in Winter, 1;

  review by Michael Sadleir, 1;

  republished, 1;

  US edn, 1;

  Swedish translation, 1, 2

  Gissing, George, 1

  Glamis, 1

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1

  Gogarty, Oliver St John, 1

  ‘Going, Going’, 1

  golden eagle, picture postcard, 1

  Goldsmith, Oliver, Collected Letters, ed. K. C. Balderston, 1

  Gollancz, Diana (later Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim), 1; quarrel with Montgomery, 1, 2n;

  ‘dear creature’, 1

  Gollancz, Victor, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5n

  Gray, Thomas: Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 1

  Graneek, Jacob (‘Jack’; QUB Librarian), 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6; on university librarians, 1

  Grantham, 1, 2

  Grasmere, 1n

  Great Expectations (film starring John Mills), 1

  Green, Henry: Caught, 1; Back, 1

  Guinness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  gulls, great black-backed and herring, picture postcard, 1

  Gunn, Thom, 1n

  Gunner, Colin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; sends L his war reminiscences, 1

&nbs
p; Guy the Gorilla, 1

  ‘Gypsies, The’, picture postcard, 1

  Halfway House, The (film), 1

  Hall, Donald, 1n

  Hall, Radclyffe, The Unlit Lamp, 1n

  Hamblett, Charles (Fortune Press), 1

  Hamburg, 1

  Hardy, Thomas, 1, 2n, 3, 4n, 5, 6; birthday, 1, 2;

  statue in Dorchester, picture postcard, 1;

  ‘The Sundial on a Wet Day’, 1, 2n;

  Tess of the Durbervilles, 1;

  The Trumpet Major, 1n;

  Wessex Poems, 1;

  Wessex Tales, 1n;

  The Woodlanders, 1;

  Providence and Mr Hardy, Lois Deacon and Terry Coleman, 1

  Harris, Frank: Oscar Wilde: His life and confessions, 1

  Harrods: wheeled basket, 1; ‘beer goblets’, 1

  Hartley, Alison and Laurien, 1; L gives presents, 1, 2n

  Hartley, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; Listen magazine, 1n;

  The Less Deceived contract, 1;

  Listen recording of The Less Deceived, 1, 2, 3;

  sales assistant in Austin Reed, 1;

  pays L royalties in cash, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  option on L’s next volume expires, 1;

  marriage breaks up, 1 and n;

  tries to sell letters from L, 1;

  leaves Hull, 1

  Hartley, Jean, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Listen Magazine, 1n;

  ‘A’ levels, 1, 2n, 3;

  ‘mature student’ entrant to Hull University, 1;