Swan Song, 1;
Love Lies Bleeding, author’s blurb on Penguin edn cover, 1, 2n
Moon, Brenda (L’s Hull Deputy), 1, 2, 3n, 4; 5; makes iced cake for L’s return from Oxford, 1;
tours Finnish Universities, 1
Moore, George, 1; Conversations with George Moore by Geraint Goodwin, 1
Moses, Grandma, 1
Motion, Andrew, Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, 1, 2n; letter of 1 January 1961, 1n
‘Mr Bleaney’, 1n, 2
Mrs Dale’s Diary (BBC radio serial), 1 and n
Murdoch, Iris, 1
Murphy, Patsy, see Strang, Patsy
Murphy, Richard, 1, 2, 3n, 4n, 5, 6; second Compton Lecturer in Hull, 1
‘Mythological Introduction’, 1n, 2n
‘Myxomatosis’, 1n
Nash, John, 1
Nash, Paul, 1
National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Nellie, see Day, Nellie
New College, Oxford, 1, 2
New Lines, ed. Robert Conquest, 1
New Statesman, 1, 2, 3
New Theatre, Oxford, 1, 2
New Verse, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
New World Symphony, A, 1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1 and n, 2; picture postcard, Largest Railway Crossing, 1
Night at the Opera, A (Marx Brothers), 1n
No For An Answer, 1n
No Orchids for Miss Blandish, James Hadley Chase, 1
Noah and the Flood, 1
North Ship, The, Fortune Press, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n; republished by Faber, 1
Norwood, Sir Cyril, 1, 2n, 3, 4
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1
Nottingham University, 1
Oates, Mrs (L’s cleaner), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Observation’, 1n, 2n
Observer, 1, 2, 3, 4; review of Lucky Jim, 1;
review of The Less Deceived, 1
Odell’s auctioneers, 1, 2n
Officer Training Corps (OTC), Oxford, 1, 2, 3, 4
oghoghogh, 1 and n, 2, 3n, 4, 5
Old English, 1, 2
‘Old Fools, The’, 1
‘Old Mother Riley’, 1n
Olivier, Laurence, 1n, 2, 3n
‘One man walking a deserted platform’, 1
opera, 1,
Orwell, George, 1
OTC, see Officer Training Corps
Owen, Wilfred: Harold Owen and John Bell, eds., Wilfred Owen: Collected Letters, 1; Stallworthy, John, Wilfred Owen 1
‘Owl, The’, Tennyson, 1
Oxford, 1, 2, 3, 4; punting, 1, 2; 3
Walton Street, 1n, 2;
Eastgate Hotel, 1, 2n, 3;
Mitre Tavern, 1;
Randolph Hotel, 1, 2
Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, 1 and n; at Beechwood House, 1, 2;
proofs, 1;
launch at a Foyles literary luncheon, 1
Oxford Mail, 1
Oxford Poetry 1942–3, ed. Ian Davie, 1, 2n
Oxford Union, 1, 2; L attends meeting, 1
Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), Othello, 1
Oxford University English Club: Wilson Knight, 1; Stella Gibbons, 1;
Clifford Bax, 1;
Dylan Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4;
R. H. Wilenski, 1;
Vernon Watkins, 1;
George Orwell, 1;
L St John’s College secretary, 1, 2, 3, 4;
delivers paper on Isherwood, 1
Oxford University Film Club, 1
Oxford University Labour Club, 1, 2, 3
Oxford University Labour Club Bulletin, 1, 2
Oxford University Press (OUP), 1, 2
Oxford University, Professorship of Poetry, 1n
Oxford University Rhythm Club, 1, 2
oyster, 1
Palmer, Richard, 1n
Paris, 1; picture postcard, Eiffel Tower, 1
Pass Mods, Oxford examination, 1, 2
Patrington, 1
Patum Peperium, Gentleman’s Relish, 1
peacocks, 1
Peebles, Cringletie Hotel, 1, 2
‘Penn, C. D.’ or ‘G. D’ (Larkin pseudonym), 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Penvorn’, 1 Manor Road Coventry, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n, 8, 9, 10n, 11n, 12n, 13; demolished, 1, 2n
Penwill, Hilary, 1, 2, 3, 4
Petronius, Satyricon, 1
Philip Larkin Society, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n
Phillips, Moira, 1; ‘Larkin Recollected’, 1n
photography, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; polyfoto, 1, 2n, 3;
Elliott and Fry, photographers, 1;
official photograph of the opening of the Library Stage 1, 1n;
‘bald Turk’ photographs for the cover of All What Jazz, 1;
Auntie Nellie’s photographs, 1;
cameras and equipment: film from Belgium, 1;
Puma Special camera, 1;
Rolleiflex, 1, 2n, 3;
L’s photographs: Kitty’s wedding, 1, 2;
Wellington, 1,
Ruth Bowman, 1, Plate 5C;
Kitty and baby Rosemary, 1, 2, Plate 7C and D;
outside Warwick Hospital, 1, Plate 8A;
a cat, 1;
Queen’s University, Belfast, 1, Plate 9A;
Dublin, 1, 2n;
Spring Bank Cemetery, 1, 2n;
Eva, 1, 2;
‘Creature surrounded by flowers’, 1, Plate 15A;
‘the dear old creature that you are’, 1, Plate 15B and C;
Molly Sellar, 1, 2n, Plate 9B;
Leo Japolsky, 1, 2n, Plate 9C;
Alec Dalgarno, 1n;
Sark, 1;
Mary Judd’s baby, 1; Plate 10C;
Pearson Park 1;
Diabaig, 1;
Humber villages, 1;
Oxford, 1;
Monica with hedgehog, 1;
self portraits: postcard, 1, Plate 5B;
L beside ‘England’ sign, 1;
cover photograph, Listen record, The Less Deceived, 1, 2;
selfies by delayed shutter-release: at breakfast, 1;
with Eva and Auntie Nellie, 1, Plate 13B;
with Colin Strang and his second wife, 1;
‘four Faber poets’, Lockington, 1
Picasso, Pablo, 1
Pickles, Wilfred, 1
‘Pigeons’, 1, 2n
Piggott, Jimmy, 1, 2n
pipe, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pirandello, Luigi, Enrico Quatro, 1
Pittsburgh (Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne), 1
Poet Laureate, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7; Masefield dies, 1;
C. Day Lewis appointed, 1n;
Day Lewis dies, 1n;
Betjeman appointed, 1
Poetry from Oxford in Wartime, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5n
Poetry Manuscripts subcommittee, 1
‘Poetry of Departures’, 1
polyfoto, 1, 2n, 3
Poole, Austin Lane, 1, 2n, 3
Pools, Vernons Treble Chance, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5
Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin), 1
porridge, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; burnt, 1, 2
Portmeirion, 1
postcard album for Eva’s cards from Philip, 1, 2n
pot au feu, pot au gaz, 1, 2
Potter, Beatrix, 1, 2, 3n, Johnny Town Mouse, 1
Potter, Stephen, 1, 2n
Potts, Percy, 1
Powell, Anthony, 1
Powell, Dilys, 1, 2n, 3
Powell, Enoch, 1
Powys, John Cowper, 1, 2n, 3; ninetieth birthday, 1,
Autobiography, 1
Powys, Llewellyn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; The Twelve Months, 1, 2n;
Impassioned Clay, 1, 2n, 3
Powys, T. F., dies, 1
Powys Lives and Letters: Welsh Ambassadors, Louis Umfreville Wilkinson, 1
Priestley, J. B., 1; Amis ‘luckier than his own Lucky Jim’, 1, 2n;
Laburnum Grove (film version), 1
Prince and the Showgirl, The (Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe), 1
proctors, 1
puffin, picture postcard, 1
Pullen, Philip, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4
Pullman trains, 1 and n, 2
Puma Special camera, 1
punting, 1, 2
‘Pwllycracrach, Dowlais Pit’, 1
Pym, Barbara, 1n, 2, 3n
Queen magazine, 1
Queen Mother, official opening of Stage 1 of the Hull Library, 1, 2n, 3 and n, 4n
Quenell, Peter, Four Portraits, 1
Quo Vadis (MGM epic film), 1
rabbits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; picture postcards, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
see also Bunny and Virginia
rail strikes, 1, 2
Ramsey, Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1
Rare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. W. J. Linton, 1
Read, Al, 1, 2, 3, 4
Reading University, 1, 2
Rees, Garnett, 1, 2n
‘Reference Back’, 1, 2n, 3, 4 and n, 5
Remembrance Day, 1, 2; listens to Cenotaph service on the radio, 1
Richards family (Eva’s neighbours), 1n, 2 and n, 3n, 4
Richardson, Sir Ralph, 1n
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1
Ritz, London, 1, 2
Ritz, Paris, 1
Roberts, Cecil, 1
Roden, Greta, 1, 2
Roe, Ernest, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, conscientious objector, 1
Roe, Peter, 1, 2
Rolleiflex camera, 1, 2n, 3
Rookhope, Co. Durham, 1, 2
Room at the Top (film of John Braine’s novel), 1
Rosa Redutea glauca, picture postcard, 1, 2n
Ross, Margaret, picture postcard, ‘Blindman’s Buff’, rabbit Christmas party, 1
Rowse, A. L., 1, 2n
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 1
Rudingerova, Chitra, 1 and n
Sadleir, Michael: review of A Girl in Winter, 1, 2; Fanny by Gaslight, 1n
St Aldates, Oxford, 1
St Andrews University, 1; honorary D.Litt., 1, 2
St John’s College, Oxford, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5; gowns, 1, 2n;
college tie, 1;
scarf, 1, 2;
L College Secretary of English Club, 1, 2;
college agent of Cherwell, 1;
St John’s College Essay Society, 1, 2;
firewatching, 1;
‘squirted the Bursar’, 1;
sconcing, 1, 2n;
Junior Common Room Suggestions Book, 1n
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 1
St Peter’s College, Oxford, 1
St Trinian’s, Blue Murder at (Terry-Thomas), 1
Samaritans, The, 1
Sampson, Anthony, Anatomy of Britain, 1
Sark: Stocks Hotel, 1; Dixcart Hotel, 1;
picture postcards, 1, 2
Scarborough, picture postcard, donkey and sea-views, 1
Scherwele, Willy, picture postcard, ‘The Party Cake’, 1, 2n
sconcing, 1, 2n
Scott, Sir Walter, 1
Secker & Warburg, 1
self-raising flour, 1, 2n
Sellar, Molly: marries Arthur Terry, 1; knits pullover, 1, 2n, Plate 9B
Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Antony and Cleopatra, 1n;
Henry V (Laurence Olivier film), 1, 2n;
Measure for Measure, 1 and n;
Othello, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5;
Lyrics and Poems of Shakespeare, 1
Shakespeare Calendar, 1
Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), 1
Shanks, Edward, 1, 2
Shaw, George Bernard, 1, 2, 3 and n, 4, 5; Eva’s notes on, 1
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 1, 2
sherry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
‘Show Saturday’, 1n, 2n
shredded wheat, 1, 2, 3
Shrewsbury, 1, 2, 3
Shrewsbury School, 1, 2
Sidwell (colleague of Sydney Larkin), 1, 2n, 3, 4n
Sillince, William Augustus, 1
Simmons, Jack, 1
Simpsons, Piccadilly, 1, 2, 3, 4n
‘Single to Belfast’, 1n
‘Single-handed and Untrained’, 1
sit-in by students, 1
Sitwell, Edith, 1
Siverns, Ruth, see Bowman, Ruth
Slade School of Art: Oxford, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5n; London: 1, 2
Slater, Mrs (Eva’s cleaner), 1, 2n, 3, 4n, 5n, 6, 7
Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1
Smith, Frank, ‘the Bish’, 1, 2n 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8
smoking, library regulation, 1
snow, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Snow, C. P., 1
snowdrops, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
‘So through that unripe day you bore your head’ (The North Ship, XXX), 1n
Southampton, University College, 1
Southport, 1, 2n
Southwold, 1, 2
Spa, Belgium, 1
Spalding, Helen, 1
Sparks, Tryphena, 1
Spectator, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7
Spender, Stephen, 1, 2, 3; visits L in Fielden House, 1
Spirella, 1, 2n
Spring Meeting (play and film), 1
Springtime anthology, 1
Spurn Head, 1, 2
squash, 1
Stalingrad, 1, 2n
stammer, 1, 2, 3n, 4
Steeple Aston, 1
Stomatitis, 1
‘Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb, A’, 1n
Strang, Colin, 1 and n, 2, 3, 4, 5 and n,
Strang, Patsy (later Murphy), 1 and n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n, 9, 10
Stratford-upon-Avon, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5; Measure for Measure, 1n;
The Merchant of Venice, 1
Strauss, Richard, Salomé, 1
Strong, Patience, xl, 1, 2
Stubbs, Mrs (friend of Eva), 1, 2, 3, 4
subscription lists: The Less Deceived, 1; Listen recording, 1
Sunday Dispatch, 1
Sunday Times, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; review of A Girl in Winter, 1, 2;
review of Lucky Jim, 1;
serialises Betjeman’s Summoned by Bells, 1;
‘Modern, Not Modernist?’, 1;
L on Betjeman as Laureate, 1
Sussex University, honorary D.Litt., 1
Sutcliffe, Joan (landlady), 1, 2, 3
Sutton, James (Jim), 1, 2, 3; L’s correspondence with, 1n;
at Slade in Oxford, 1, 2n; 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
army medical, 1;
army conscript, 1, 2;
conscientious objector, 1, 2;
serves in 14th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
at Slade in London, 1, 2;
buys four cottages and lives on rent, 1;
L tires of his ‘windy philosophical tosh’, 1
Swanage, Dorset, 1
Swansea, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5
Sweet, Henry: Anglo Saxon Primer, 1, 2; Anglo Saxon Reader, 1
Tarbush, Susannah, 1n
Tarzan of the Apes, 1
Taylor, Jeremy, Holy Living and Holy Dying, 1, 2n
Taylor, Philip and Miriam, 1
Tchekhov, see Chekhov
telegrams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n, 14, 15n, 16, 17n, 18, 19, 20
telephone, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14n, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 1; ‘Lady Clara Vere de Vere’, 1
Tennyson, Sir Charles, 1
Terry, Arthur Hubert, 1, 2n,
marries Molly Sellar, 1
Thackeray, William, The Adventures of Philip, 1
Thomas, Dylan, 1, 2, 3, 4; physical description, 1;
dies, 1
Thomas, Edward, ‘The Word’, 1, 2n
Thompson, Flora, Lark Rise to Candleford, 1, 2n
Thomson, James, Winter, 1
Thwaite, Anthony, 1; L’s correspondence with, 1n;
BBC Europ
ean Service ‘Younger British Poets of Today’, 1, 2n;
Larkin at Sixty, 1n
Time magazine, 1
Times, The, 1n, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7n, crossword, 1
Times Educational Supplement, 1
Times Literary Supplement, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Timms, David, Philip Larkin, 1 and n
tin opener, 1
‘To the Sea’, L sends typescript to Eva, 1, 2n
toads, 1, 2, 3
‘Toads’, 1
toilet, see lavatory
tortoise, 1
Trinder, Tommy, 1
Trinity College, Dublin, 1, 2, 3n, 4
Trinity College, Oxford, 1, 2, 3
Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions, 1n
‘Turn the gas tap half round’, 1
Tyne, River, 1
‘Ultimatum’, 1, 2, 3n
umbrella, 1, 2, 3
University Grants Committee, 1n
V1, V2 (German missiles), 1, 2n
Van Gogh, ‘The Artist’s Bedroom’, 1
Venice, 1
Verdi, Giuseppe, La Traviata, 1
Vines, Walter Sherard, 1, 2n
Virginia (wicker rabbit), 1, 2, 3, Plate 16A and B
Vize, Colin, 1n
Vogue, 1, 2; Amis featured in, 1
Wagner, Richard, Tristan and Isolde, 1
Wain, John, 1 and n, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6
Wallace Heaton, New Bond St, 1n
Warwick, 73 Coten End, 1, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5n, 6, 7
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