Philip Larkin (95 page)

    
9.
   A Law student working in the Library at the time rushed down to the entrance, fearing that someone had really committed suicide. Alan Marshall, interview with the author, 16 April 2013.

  
10.
   Card to Eva Larkin, 28 January 1965.

  
11.
   To Eva Larkin, 21 March 1965.

  
12.
   15 August 1965.
SL
,
pp. 375–6.

  
13.
   
SL
,
p. 376.

  
14.
   Hazel Holt,
A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym
(London: Macmillan, 1990), p. 202.

  
15.
   Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury.

  
16.
   3 October 1967.
SL
, p. 397.

  
17.
   ‘The World of Barbara Pym’,
RW
, pp. 240–1.

  
18.
   26 November 1966.
LM
,
p. 371.

  
19.
   Holt,
A Lot to Ask
, p. 49.

  
20.
   Motion, p. 362.

  
21.
   20 January 1966.
SL
,
p. 380.

  
22.
   To Eva Larkin, 24 October 1965.

  
23.
   12 October 1961.
Complete Poems
, p. 301.

  
24.
   Motion, p. 302.

  
25.
   Brennan, pp. 170–1.

  
26.
   Ibid., p. 178.

  
27.
   
LM
,
p. 339.

  
28.
   Ibid.,
p. 340 and n.

  
29.
   Ibid.,
p. 350.

  
30.
   Ibid.,
p. 352n.

  
31.
   
SL
,
p. 369.

  
32.
   DPL/1/7/1.

  
33.
   Larkin made slight changes of wording before it was published in
Queen
, 25 May 1966.

  
34.
   ‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, p. 21.

  
35.
   13 October 1964.
LM
,
p. 342.

  
36.
   In the 1988
Collected Poems
Thwaite adopted Larkin’s second title, added in pencil to the typescript (DPL/1/7/76)
.
Breaking his editorial principles Burnett prefers the first title (
Complete Poems
, p. 634).

  
37.
   For the possible background to this poem, see Gary Kriewald, ‘Wasteful, weak, propitiatory poems: Larkin apologizes to the animals’,
AL
28 (October 2009), pp. 29–33.

  
38.
   Margaret Hersom, unpublished recollection. Burnett prints a version of ‘Administration’ sent in a letter to Gavin Ewart in 1977 (
Complete Poems
, p. 655).

  
39.
   Now the Mercure Hull Royal Hotel. It was burnt out in 1990, but was deliberately restored in the same traditional style in order to recall the poem, with high clustered lights and differently coloured chairs.

  
40.
   To Maeve Brennan, 6 August 1966. Motion, p. 365.

  
41.
   
SL
,
p. 387.

  
42.
   
LM
,
p. 369.

  
43.
   Not in
LM
.

  
44.
   To Monica Jones, 8 October 1966.
LM
,
p. 364.

  
45.
   Motion, p. 310.

  
46.
   8 October 1966.
LM
,
p. 364.

  
47.
   
LM
,
p. 365.

  
48.
   
SL
,
p. 381.

  
49.
   Ibid.,
p. 382.

  
50.
   Brennan, p. 49.

  
51.
   James Booth, ‘“Snooker” at the Seaside: The Birthday Walk in Scarborough’,
AL
16 (October 2003), p. 29.

  
52.
   He would never take her advice, being ‘very determined about what he liked and what he didn’t’. Judy Egerton, interview with the author, 17 December 2010.

  
53.
   3 June 1967.
SL
,
p. 396.

  
54.
   Professor Raymond Brett, personal communication, 1969.

  
55.
   Edna Longley, ‘Poète Maudit Manqué’, in George Hartley (ed.),
Philip Larkin – A Tribute: 1922–1985
(London: Marvell Press, 1988), p. 230.

  
56.
   23 May 1968. Not in
LM
.

  
57.
   This line was changed in the typescript from the workbook’s ‘The sunlight pouring through glass’.

  
58.
   DPL/1/7/18.

  
59.
   Motion, p. 371.

  
60.
   In Susannah Tarbush, ‘From Willow Gables to “Aubade”: Penelope Scott Stokes and Philip Larkin: Part 2’,
AL
26 (October 2008), pp. 5–10, at p. 7.

  
61.
   10 May 1967.
LM
,
p.
375. A selection of Penelope’s verse and drawings, ‘Poems by Pen Evans’, is to be found in
AL
27 (April 2009), pp. 15–21.

  
62.
   Tarbush, ‘From Willow Gables to “Aubade”’, p. 7.

  
63.
   24 April 1968. Passage not in
LM
.

  
64.
   Motion, p. 374.

  
65.
   27 March 1967. Motion, p. 369.

  
66.
   Jean Hartley and James Booth, ‘Jean Hartley DLitt’,
AL
31 (April 2011), p. 10.

  
67.
   23 August 1967.
LM
,
p. 377.

  
68.
   Hartley, p. 134.

  
69.
   Published in the
New Statesman
on 18 May 1968.

  
70.
   24 April 1968. Passage not in
LM
.

  
71.
   Workbook 7, 1/7/20.

  
72.
   The date in the 1988
Collected Poems
, ‘16 June’, is inaccurate. This was the date the poem was begun.