BIB_ID
195094
Accession number
MA 5000 (1-31)
Creator
Larkin, Philip.
Display Date
1957-1977.
Credit line
Purchase, Gordon N. Ray Fund; 1996.
Description
30 items (52 p.) + with 13 envelopes.
Notes
An itemized list, with content descriptions of individual letters, is available.
The 1996 auction catalog description of this collection lists only 27 letters; however, 30 letters were received. The description also lists a corrected typescript of Larkin's article "Vernon Watkins: An Encounter and a Re-Encounter"; this item was not received; a photocopy, however, is available.
The group includes: autograph letters signed (14), typed letters signed (4), and autograph card signed (1), to Vernon Watkins; autograph letters signed (3), typed letters signed (6), and autograph card signed (1), to Gwen Watkins; a signed Christmas card; and a carbon copy typescript of Larkin's poem "Solar," dated [1964], published in High Windows (1974).
The 1996 auction catalog description of this collection lists only 27 letters; however, 30 letters were received. The description also lists a corrected typescript of Larkin's article "Vernon Watkins: An Encounter and a Re-Encounter"; this item was not received; a photocopy, however, is available.
The group includes: autograph letters signed (14), typed letters signed (4), and autograph card signed (1), to Vernon Watkins; autograph letters signed (3), typed letters signed (6), and autograph card signed (1), to Gwen Watkins; a signed Christmas card; and a carbon copy typescript of Larkin's poem "Solar," dated [1964], published in High Windows (1974).
Summary
Concerning Watkins's submission to an anthology Larkin is editing for PEN (New Poems 1958); Watkins's early influence on Larkin; Larkin's admiration for Watkins despite their artistic differences; the poetry of Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, and Dylan Thomas; the cataloging of Watkins's poetic manuscripts for the British Museum; a new edition of Larkin's The North Ship, in the introduction to which Larkin wishes to quote Watkins; an interview Larkin did with The Guardian; Larkin's derision of his own early work; and (in the letters to Gwen Watkins) Larkin's article "Vernon Watkins: An Encounter and a Re-Encounter" for the magazine Mabon (a photocopy of Larkin's corrected typescript for the article is included).
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