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Manuscript page from Philip Larkin's "The Whitsun wedding" [photograph].

BIB_ID
454169
Accession number
MA 5040 PH 50
Credit line
Paris Review.
Description
1 photographic print
Notes
Part of Series 3 of The Paris Review Archives, which consists of photographs that were removed from the Series 1 (Editorial Correspondence) and Series 2 (Interviews) files, replaced with preservation photocopies, and placed in this series. Each folder contains a sheet describing where the items were removed from.
24.1 x 19 cm (image); 25.4 x 20.2 cm (sheet)
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso: ms lines from "The Whitsun Weddings" / © Philip Larkin 1982. Two slips affixed to verso inscribed with notes to printer.
Provenance
Paris Review.
Summary
Photograph of a page from the manuscript for Philip Larkin's poem, The Whitsun Weddings, with the first two paragraphs entirely deleted with cross-hatched lines. Preserved text begins, "But much less quickly noticed was the noise ... ".
Medium
Gelatin silver print