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;
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