summer, 1;
autumn, 1 and n, 2, 3;
writing: on destroying letters, 1;
concern over sale of poetry mss to the USA, 1
DOMESTIC LIFE AND ROUTINES: clothes: silk tie, 1;
crimson trousers, 1;
‘green trousers, green dressing gown, and red shirt’, 1;
white sweater, 1, 2;
chooses tweed for suit, 1;
sports coat, 1;
underpants, 1, 2, 3 (nylon), 4, 5;
buys pink pyjamas in Oxford, 1;
Liberty’s of London, 1;
Marks & Spencer shirt, 1, 2;
suits from Simpsons, Piccadilly, 1, 2;
Simpsons suit repair, 1;
‘My pursuit of the Ideal Suit’, 1;
cycling and driving, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
buys cars, 1, 2;
driving compared with cycling, 1;
car problems, 1;
food and drink: abstains from drinking or smoking, 1;
seventh day without alcohol, 1;
hatred of sugar, 1;
cooks: steak and potatoes, 1;
pot au feu, 1;
‘porklet’, 1;
macaroni cheese and salad, 1;
steak and kidney pie, 1;
broad beans and bacon, 1;
eats raw vegetables on Betty’s father’s advice, 1, 2;
‘Bisks are the thing’, 1;
Ryvita, 1;
considers drinking Guinness rather than gin, 1;
lodgings: pictures for college room, 1;
Walton Street breakfasts, 1, 2;
Ladycroft ‘garden jakes’, 1, 2n;
College Street flat, Belfast, 1;
Elmwood Avenue flat, 1, 2;
cleans gas cooker, 1;
Outlands Road (‘this wireless curse’), 1;
furnishes Pearson Park flat, 1;
Wedgewood tea set, 1;
headed notepaper, 1;
anglepoise lamp, 1;
‘very near’ to buying a refrigerator, 1n;
quarrels between neighbours, 1, 2;
banging doors, 1;
boils mops and dishcloth, 1;
moves into 1
Newland Park, 1, 2;
socialising: coffee strainer, 1, 2;
broken tea-cup, 1;
tea with Chitra, 1;
visits Amises in Swansea, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5;
lunch with Graneeks, 1;
routine in QUB, 1;
dancing, 1;
‘social evening’, 1;
Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde in Dublin, 1;
‘lonely’ birthday treat, Tommy Trinder, 1;
dinner at Trinity College, Dublin, 1;
entertains the Hartleys, 1, 2;
eats oyster, 1;
tea with Pearson Park neighbours, 1;
Library party, 1;
socks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
darns khaki socks in grey; 1, Plate 5A;
‘preliminary darning’, 1;
socks worn for five years, 1;
‘mended about four pairs’, 1,
‘mended eleven pairs’, 1;
handkerchiefs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
boils them, 1;
Valentine cards: from a student, 1;
from Mary Wrench, 1;
to Mary and Betty, 1, 2;
washing and laundry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
sends washing home from Oxford, 1;
laundry loses shirt, 1;
lost socks, 1;
‘laundry never endeth’, 1;
washes shirts before sending to laundry, 1;
weight, ‘13st 7lbs – 13st 8lbs, 13st 9lbs’, 1;
‘I stay between 13 & 13½ stone’, 1;
‘a pound or so over 14st’, 1;
‘down, almost, to 14 stone!!’, 1;
‘exactly 15 stone’, 1;
‘should lose 2 stone’, 1;
‘14¾ st.’, 1;
‘13 st. 10 lbs’, 1;
‘up to 13 st again’, 1
HEALTH: collapse in library committee, 1; Eva, Kitty and Walter visit L in Hull, 1;
in Fielden House for tests, 1;
ear infection, 1;
constipation: Eva’s advice, 1, 2n;
deafness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
hearing ‘on the borderline of social adequacy’, 1;
dental problems, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
eyesight: army exam, 1, 2n, 3;
eye tests, 1;
spectacles, 1, 2;
hayfever, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19;
oesophagus: barium meal x-ray, 1, 2n;
‘stomach’ problems, 1;
mass x-ray, 1;
throat ‘a bit odd’, 1;
polyp, 1, 2, 3;
‘Polyp Larkin’, 1
HOLIDAYS AND TRIPS: 400th anniversary of St John’s College, 1; best man at Alec Dalgarno’s wedding, Belfast, 1 and n;
Colin Strang and second wife in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1;
the Murphys in Kensington, 1;
Richard Murphy in Ireland, 1;
to Paris with Bruce Montgomery, 1;
with Eva to: Weymouth, 1, 2n;
Stratford-upon-Avon, 1n,
Norwich, 1 and n;
King’s Lynn, 1;
for L’s holidays with Monica see Jones, Monica
HONOURS: included in Who’s Who, 1; honorary D.Litt. degrees: Queen’s University, Belfast, 1;
Leicester, 1;
St Andrews, 1;
Sussex, 1;
delivers refusal of OBE in person to 10 Downing Street, 1 and n;
CBE at Buckingham Palace, 1;
Shakespeare Prize, Hamburg, 1
LIBRARIES: Wellington: routines, 1; smoking, 1;
disputed fine, 1;
dogs, 1;
‘I’d have missed it for anything’, 1;
‘shall probably never do any job so spectacularly well’, 1;
Leicester: appointment, 1;
salary £450 p.a., 1;
Belfast: tour of Northern University Libraries, 1;
regrets Winifred Arnott’s engagement; 1 and n;
application for Hull post, 1;
Hull interview, 1;
plans of new Hull Library, 1;
Hull: addresses visiting University Librarians, 1;
Brynmor Jones appointed Vice Chancellor, 1;
appoints Mary Wrench, 1, 2n, 3;
Queen visits Hull, 1;
appoints Betty Mackereth, 1;
car trip to Busby Hall, 1;
progress on Stage 1 of Library, 1, 2, 3, 4;
the move into the new Library, 1;
stray cat and kittens, 1;
cat run over, 1;
Library party, 1;
flees interview for post in Reading, 1;
Queen Mother opens Library Stage 1, 1 and n;
L godfather to Mary Judd’s daughter, 1;
opens extension at Wellington Library, 1;
Hull Library named after Brynmor Jones on L’s advice, 1;
second Library move, 1;
Architects awarded RIBA gold medal, 1;
Lord Cohen officially opens Library Stage 1, 2;
sherry party on L’s return from Oxford, 1
LITERARY CAREER: ‘Ultimatum’ published in Listener, 1; 2, 3n;
‘Observation’ and ‘Disintegration’ in Oxford Labour Club Bulletin, 1, 2;
fails to appear in ‘Z’ anthology, 1, 2;
two poems in Arabesque, 1, 2n;
three poems in Oxford Poetry 1942–3, ed. Ian Davie, 1 and n;
completes Jill, 1n;
sends ‘One man walking a deserted platform’ to Sydney and Eva, 1;
Faber rejects Jill, 1;
working on Katherine, 1;
ten poems in Poetry from Oxford in Wartime, ed. William Bell (Fortune Press), 1n, 2;
Fortune Press publishes The North Ship, 1;
Cape, Secker, Chat
to & Windus and Cresset Press reject The Kingdom of Winter, 1;
contract with Faber, 1;
Faber changes the title to A Girl in Winter, 1;
advance of £27, 1, 2;
Fortune Press publishes Jill, 1;
Faber rejects In the Grip of Light, 1;
L on the Northern Ireland BBC Home Service, 1;
talk at Trinity College, Dublin, 1, 2n;
publishes three poems in Listen, 1;
Marvell Press publishes The Less Deceived by subscription, 1n, 2, 3;
‘Poetry of Departures’ broadcast, 1;
contract with Hartley, 1;
sends Eva Listen 1.4, including ‘Reference Back’, 1n;
‘Church Going’ broadcast, 1;
‘Reference Back’ broadcast, 1;
‘Pigeons’ broadcast, 1;
New Lines, ed. Robert Conquest, includes eight poems by L, 1n;
BBC radio broadcast, ‘Younger British Poets of Today’ 1;
L judges ‘Song of Praise’ competition, 1;
Listen record of The Less Deceived, 1;
reissue, 1;
breaks with Hartley, 1;
Faber publishes The Whitsun Weddings, 1, 2;
L donates first poetry workbook to British Library, 1;
BBC TV Monitor feature, 1, 2;
Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 1, 2 and n;
dinner with John Betjeman and Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, 1;
working on Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, 1, 2;
BBC Radio 3 celebrates fiftieth birthday, 1 and n
WORKS: see individual works under their titles
Larkin, Sydney (L’s father): Coventry City Treasurer, 1; President of the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants and Chairman of the National Savings Committee, 1;
OBE, 1;
National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
relations with Eva, 1;
relations with Philip, 1, 2, 3;
relations with Kitty, 1;
wide reading, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and n;
outspoken opponent of corruption, 1, 2, 3;
advises L on career in librarianship, 1;
cycling, 1, 2;
on Fascism, 1, 2;
on conscientious objection, 1;
anti-Semitism, 1;
‘The Fools’ War’ (diary 1939–46), 1, 2, 3n, 4;
moves family home from Coventry to Warwick, 1;
description of Blitz, 1;
telegram to Philip following Blitz, 1;
letter writing style, 1, 2;
insists on ‘Esqu’ in correspondence, 1;
sarcasm about stylistic pomposity, 1;
prefers ‘orient’ to ‘orientate’, 1;
liking for Henley’s poems, 1;
compares the Koran with Law’s Serious Call, 1;
verdict on Jill, 1;
book bargains, 1;
preference for cold pie, 1;
shown round Oxford by the Mayor, 1;
experiments with Biro, 1 and n;
helps L with Liverpool application, 1, 2n;
writes L’s London application, 1, 2;
early retirement, 1n;
death, 1;
not in Who’s Who, 1
‘Larkinism’, 1 and n
Laurel and Hardy, 1; Pack up your Troubles, 1
lavatory, 1, 2, 3n, 4; ‘garden jakes’, 1, 2n
Law, William, Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, 1 and n
Lawrence, D. H., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9; original letter, 1, 2;
Aaron’s Rod, 1;
Apropos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 1, 2;
Collected Letters, ed. Harry T. Moore, 1;
Fantasia of the Unconscious, 1;
Kangaroo, 1, 2;
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 1, 2, 3;
L asks for the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley and Paintings in Bodleian, 1, 2;
The Rainbow, 1;
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine, 1;
Sons and Lovers, 1, 2;
Studies in Classic American Literature, 1;
D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record, ‘E. T.’ (Jessie Chambers), 1
Lawrence, Frieda, 1
Laughton, Charles (The Private Life of Henry VIII), 1
Layard, John, 1
Le Cave, Peter, 1n
Leamington, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lehmann, John, 1 and n, 2, 3
Lehmann, Karl, 1, 2n, 3
Lehmann, Rosamond, The Ballad and the Source, 1n
Leicester, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5; Kitty’s addresses in: 719 Loughborough Road, Birstall, 1n, 2n;
YWCA, Granville Hall, Granville Road, 1n, 2n;
85 Stanfell Road, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5n;
L’s lodgings in, 1n:
172 London Road, 1;
6 College Street, 1, 2;
12 Dixon Drive, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8n
Leicester College of Arts and Crafts, 1n, 2n
Leicester Royal Infirmary, 1n, 2n
Leicester University College (from 1957 University of Leicester), 1, 2, 3n, 4n, 5n, 6n, 7, 8, 9; honorary D.Litt., 1
Leicester, Victoria Park, 1, 2
Leishman, J. B., 1
Less Deceived, The, 1n, 2n, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Listen Records, 1, 2, 3, 4
Lewis, C. Day, see Day Lewis
Liberty, London, 1, 2
Library Association Record, 1
Libya, 1
Lichfield, 1, 2, 3, 4; 5 Cherry Orchard, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6;
St Michael’s Church, 1, 2n
lilies, 1, 2
Lincoln, 1, 2, 3
‘Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album’, 1n, 2n
Lisburn, 1
Listen magazine, 1n, 2n, 3
Listen Records: The Less Deceived, 1n, 2, 3, 4; The Whitsun Weddings, 1
Listener, 1, 2, 3n; ‘Ultimatum’, 1n
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott), 1
Liverpool Daily Post, 1
Liverpool University, 1, 2n, 3
Lochgoilhead, picture postcard, sunset over Ben Bheula, 1
Lomond, Loch, picture postcard, 1
London, 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, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44
London Magazine, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5
Loughborough, 1, 2, 3n, 4; 21 York Road (Eva’s home), 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5;
53 York Road (Kitty and Walter’s home), 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5n;
‘Oddstones’, Forest Road, (Kitty and Walter’s new home), 1, 2, 3;
L stays with Walter and Kitty, 1
‘Love Songs in Age’, 1 and n
‘Love we must part now’, 1n, 2n
Lowell, Robert, 1
Lunn, Arnold, 1, 2n
Lyons Corner Houses, 1, 2, 3
Mackereth, Betty, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22; drives car to Busby Hall, 1, 2n;
her father’s advice on ‘healthy feeding’, 1, 2;
‘loaf-haired’, 1;
L’s description, 1 and n;
L sends Valentine, 1;
‘my mainstay’, 1
McNicol, Effie (Eva’s friend), 1n, 2, 3n, 4, 5n, 6, 7 and n, 8, 9; television, 1n
Madge, Charles, 1
Magdalen College, Oxford, 1, 2
Magnet, The, 1
‘Maiden Name’, 1n
Manchester Evening News, 1
Manchester Guardian, 1
mangle, 1
Mann, Wendy, 1
Mansfield, Katherine, 1, 2, 3; Bliss, 1;
The Garden Party, 1;
Daughter of Time: The Life of Katherine Mansfield in Novel Form, Nelia Gardner White, 1, 2n
Marks and Spencer, 1; cotton and nylon shirts, 1, 2;
Hull Whitefriargate branch, 1
Marmite, 1, 2, 3
Marshall, Arthur Hedley, 1 and n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n, 8
Marston, John, The Malcontent, 1
&nb
sp; Martin, Sir Leslie, 1
Marvell, Andrew, 1, Selected Poems, 1
Marvell Press, 1n, 2n; Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press and Me, Jean Hartley, 1n, 2n
Masefield, John, 1; dies, 1
Matlock, Derbyshire, 1, 2
matriculation at Oxford, 1, 2, 3
Maugham, Somerset, 1; The Magician, 1;
The Razor’s Edge, 1;
Somerset Maugham Prize, 1
Megaw, Miss (Chief Cataloguer at QUB), 1, 2
‘Mellstock’, 1
Melton Mowbray, 1, 2n
Meredith, George, The Egoist, 1 and n
Meyer, Michael, 1
Michaelmas Term at St Brides, 1n
Middleton, Thomas, Selected Plays, 1
Milestone, Louis, 1
mob cap, 1n, 2, 3, 4n, 5; ‘creature cap’, 1
Moby Dick, Hermann Melville, 1
Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui, 1, 2n
Moniaive, 1
Monroe, Marilyn, 1
monst-haugh, Loch Ness Monst-Haugh, 1 and n, 2, 3, 4
Monteith, Charles (Faber & Faber), 1n, 2 and n, 3, 4
Montgomery, Bruce: Sydney’s comments on, 1, 2; Eva’s comments on, 1, 2;
tea with L and Philip Brown, 1;
novel accepted by Gollancz, 1;
teaching in Shrewsbury, 1, 2, 3;
visits L in Wellington, 1, 2;
quarrel with Diana Gollancz, 1;
L sends Jill, 1;
likes ‘One man walking a deserted platform’, 1;
in Brixham, 1, 2;
claims to have influenced TLS into acknowledging The North Ship, 1, 2;
dubious about The Kingdom of Winter, 1;
B.Mus. degree, 1;
literary life in London, 1, 2, 3;
stays with L in Leicester, 1;
mumps, 1;
holiday with L in Paris, 1;
L corrects his proofs, 1;
lunch and dinner with L in London, 1;
earning £10,000 a year, 1;
in introduction to the new edn of Jill, 1;
succumbing to drink, 1;
seems ‘v. old’, 1;
novels published as ‘Edmund Crispin’: The Case of the Gilded Fly, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Holy Disorders, 1, 2;
The Moving Toyshop (L takes credit for a passage on poetry), 1;
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