Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Rosamund Strode (Assistant to Benjamin Britten) asking him to compose the music for piece he is planning to write

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Papers of Philip Arthur LarkinU DPL

Poetry workbooksU DPL/1

Poetry typescriptsU DPL/2

Poetry publicationsU DPL/3

Prose and other manuscriptsU DPL/4

CorrespondenceU DPL/5

InterviewsU DPL/6

SpeechesU DPL/7

All Souls College, OxfordU DPL/8

PhotographsU DPL/9

MiscellaneousU DPL/10

Second DepositU DPL2

Manuscripts and related materialU DPL2/1

Correspondence filesU DPL2/2

Subject filesU DPL2/3

File. 'All What Jazz 1984'U DPL2/3/1

Artificial bundle. All What JazzU DPL2/3/2

File. 'Arts Council Literature Advisory Panel, 1980 - 1982'U DPL2/3/3

File. Arts Council Literature Advisory PanelU DPL2/3/4

File. 'Arts Council Poetry Panel' [National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Poets Committee]U DPL2/3/5

File. Arts CouncilU DPL2/3/6

File. Arts Council writers' bursariesU DPL2/3/7

Artificial file. Arvon Foundation Poetry CompetitionU DPL2/3/8

Artificial file. Authors' Lending and Copyright SocietyU DPL2/3/9

Artificial bundle. Martin BellU DPL2/3/10

File. Barry BloomfieldU DPL2/3/11

File. The Booker Prize for Literature 1977U DPL2/3/12

Files. British Library BoardU DPL2/3/13

File. British Library BoardU DPL2/3/14

File. Bain Dawes & Partners Ltd.U DPL2/3/15

File. 'Car'U DPL2/3/16

File. 'Comments on poems'U DPL2/3/17

File. CBEU DPL2/3/18

File. 'Compton Poetry Fund'U DPL2/3/19

Artificial bundle. ContributionsU DPL2/3/20

File. Companion of Literature AwardU DPL2/3/21

File. Coventry Award of MeritU DPL2/3/22

Artificial bundle. CricketU DPL2/3/23

File. Faber and FaberU DPL2/3/24

File. Faber and FaberU DPL2/3/25

File. FSSU vs. USS pension contributionsU DPL2/3/26

File. 'Jill: film and television rights'U DPL2/3/27

File. 'Hamburg' Shakespeare PrizeU DPL2/3/28

File. 'George Hartley (complaints against)'U DPL2/3/29

File. Thomas Hardy SocietyU DPL2/3/30

File. 'Thomas Hardy's death'U DPL2/3/31

File. 'High Windows'U DPL2/3/32

Artificial bundle. 'High Windows': reviewsU DPL2/3/33

File. Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University, BelfastU DPL2/3/34

File. 'Leicester, 1970'U DPL2/3/35

File. 'Sussex, 16.7.1974'U DPL2/3/36

Artificial bundle. 'Hull Daily Mail'U DPL2/3/37

File. Hull Daily Mail poetry competitionU DPL2/3/38

File. Humber BridgeU DPL2/3/39

Letter from Brynmor Jones to Philip Larkin on behalf of Sydney Hainsworth (J H Fenner & Co.) about his proposal to commission a piece of musicU DPL2/3/39/1

Correspondence between Charles Monteith (Faber and Faber) and Philip Larkin advising him on the copyright position of words when set to musicU DPL2/3/39/2

Correspondence between Sidney Hainsworth and Philip Larkin discussing a suitable composer for the Humber Bridge choral work and keeping him up to date with the projectU DPL2/3/39/3

University of Hull memorandum from Philip Larkin to Robert Marchant (Director of Music, University of Hull) seeking advice about contemporary composersU DPL2/3/39/4

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Rosamund Strode (Assistant to Benjamin Britten) asking him to compose the music for piece he is planning to writeU DPL2/3/39/5

Correspondence between Anthony Hedges (Composer) and Philip Larkin about the suitability of Larkin s poetry for adaptation to choral worksU DPL2/3/39/6

Letter from Philip Larkin to Charles Monteith (Faber and Faber) keeping him updated on the Humber Bridge Choral WorkU DPL2/3/39/7

Correspondence between Peter du Sautoy (Faber and Faber) and Philip Larkin about the fee he should chargeU DPL2/3/39/8

Letter from Philip Larkin to Brynmor Jones keeping him updated on the Humber Bridge Choral WorkU DPL2/3/39/9

Correspondence between Mr S J Shipley (Cashier s Department, J H Fenner & Co. Ltd.) and Philip Larkin about the commission fee for the Humber Bridge Choral WorkU DPL2/3/39/10

Correspondence between C G Follett (Hull Choral Union) and Philip Larkin sending him complimentary tickets for the first and second performances of Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/11

Correspondence between P S Bryson and Philip Larkin seeking help with his programme for the Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/12

Poster advertising the first performance of Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/13

Correspondence between J A McBride (Honorary General Secretary, Hull Choral Union) and Philip Larkin commenting on the success of the first performance and suggesting a second performanceU DPL2/3/39/14

Letter from Sidney Hainsworth (J H Fenner & Co (Holdings) Ltd.) to Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/39/15

Letters from Haydon Miles and Bill Hope to Sidney Hainsworth (J H Fenner & Co. (Holdings) Ltd.) praising the first performance of Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/16

Photocopies of the words for Bridge for the Living, Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/39/17

Press cutting. A Bridge for the Living, published in The GuardianU DPL2/3/39/18

Press cutting. The sound of the bridge, published in Hull Daily MailU DPL2/3/39/19

Letter from Charles Monteith (Faber and Faber) to Philip Larkin sending him a copy of the programme concert for Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/20

Correspondence between Edmund Marshall MP and Philip Larkin seeking the libretto for Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/21

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Anthony Hedges about the inclusion of Bridge for the living on an album issued by Meridian RecordsU DPL2/3/39/22

Press cutting. Humber scenes on record, Hull Daily MailU DPL2/3/39/23

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Mavis Pindard (Subsidiary Rights, Faber and Faber) suggesting that Bridge for the Living be registered with the Performing Rights Society and discussing payment for the use of his poem on the sleeve of the Meridian recordU DPL2/3/39/24

University of Hull memoranda between Anthony Hedges (Department of Music) and Philip Larkin keeping him up to date with the Meridian recording of Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/25

Correspondence between Glyn Roberts (Humberside County Council) and Philip Larkin suggesting that the text Bridge for the Living be included on the record sleeve of the Meridian recordingU DPL2/3/39/26

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and John Shuttleworth (Meridian Records) discussing his terms for the inclusion of his words on the record sleeve of Scenes from HumberU DPL2/3/39/27

Correspondence between Glyn Roberts (Director of Leisure Services, Humberside County Council) and Philip Larkin informing him that a copy of the record Scenes from Humber has been sent to the QueenU DPL2/3/39/28

Correspondence between P S Bryson (Hull Choral Union) and Philip Larkin about the sale of surplus programmes for Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/29

Press cutting. The long wait for Hull's missing link, Nicholas Faith, published in the Sunday TimesU DPL2/3/39/30

Press cutting. The bridge to nowhere, published in the Sunday TimesU DPL2/3/39/31

Press cutting. The vision and writing on the wall published in the Sunday TimesU DPL2/3/39/32

Posters advertising first performance of Bridge for the LivingU DPL2/3/39/33

Artificial bundle. InvitationsU DPL2/3/40

Artificial bundle. Jazz reviews and obituariesU DPL2/3/41

File. 'Larkinland'U DPL2/3/42

Bundle. Library Association Fellowship candidateU DPL2/3/43

File. Literary businessU DPL2/3/44

File. Literary businessU DPL2/3/45

File. Literary businessU DPL2/3/46

File. Other literary businessU DPL2/3/47

File. 'Philip Larkin's blues and other colours'U DPL2/3/48

File. Migration of English literary manuscripts to AmericaU DPL2/3/49

File. National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Writers CommitteeU DPL2/3/50

File. National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Writers CommitteeU DPL2/3/51

File. National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Poets Sub-CommitteeU DPL2/3/52

File. National Manuscripts Collection of ContemporaryPoets Sub Committee catalogue and exhibition 1967U DPL2/3/53

File. National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Poets Sub CommitteeU DPL2/3/54

Bundle. National Portrait GalleryU DPL2/3/55

File. Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English VerseU DPL2/3/56

Artificial bundle. Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English VerseU DPL2/3/57

File. Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English VerseU DPL2/3/58

File. Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English VerseU DPL2/3/59

File. Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English VerseU DPL2/3/60

File. Oxford book of modern verseU DPL2/3/61

File. New Oxford English DictionaryU DPL2/3/62

Artificial bundle. School and OxfordU DPL2/3/63

Bundle. Annual PEN anthology: New Poems 1958U DPL2/3/64

Artificial file. Performances, readings etc.U DPL2/3/65

File. Performing Rights SocietyU DPL2/3/66

File. Permissions fees or 'Why should it be the author who loses out?'U DPL2/3/67

File. Poetry Book SocietyU DPL2/3/68

File. Poetry SocietyU DPL2/3/69

File. Board of Management of Poetry Book SocietyU DPL2/3/70

File. Poetry Book Society PresidentU DPL2/3/71

File. Poetry Book Society. Choice and recommendationU DPL2/3/72

File. 'Poetry panel [of the Arts Council] - manuscripts'U DPL2/3/73

File. 'Barbara Pym'U DPL2/3/74

File. Queen's Gold Medal AwardU DPL2/3/75

Artificial file. QuotationsU DPL2/3/76

Artificial bundle. Required WritingU DPL2/3/77

File. Required WritingU DPL2/3/78

File. Royal Society of LiteratureU DPL2/3/79

Artificial bundle. Helen SpaldingU DPL2/3/80

File. 'SCONUL literature seminar, March 1979'U DPL2/3/81

File. 'Society of Authors: Committee of Management'U DPL2/3/82

File. South Bank ShowU DPL2/3/83

File. 'The Jenny Stratford catalogue'U DPL2/3/84

Bundle. TaxU DPL2/3/85

Bundle. TaxU DPL2/3/86

Bundle. TaxU DPL2/3/87

File. Tenancy: 32 Pearson Park, HullU DPL2/3/88

File. Tennyson manuscripts: sale by Lincoln County LibraryU DPL2/3/89

File. VATU DPL2/3/90

File. Watershed FoundationU DPL2/3/91

File. Vernon Watkins bibliographyU DPL2/3/92

File. Wellington Public LibraryU DPL2/3/93

Bundle. WH Smith Literature AwardU DPL2/3/94

File. The Whitsun Weddings and JillU DPL2/3/95

File. Who's Who entriesU DPL2/3/96

File. York Minster FundU DPL2/3/97

Artificial file. MiscellaneousU DPL2/3/98

Bundle. Miscellaneous reviewsU DPL2/3/99

Artificial bundle. Miscellaneous reviews and postcardsU DPL2/3/100

Bundle. MiscellaneousU DPL2/3/101

Bundle. MiscellaneousU DPL2/3/102

Artificial bundle. MiscellaneousU DPL2/3/103

Artificial file. Photographs and negativesU DPL2/3/104

Artificial file. CorrespondenceU DPL2/3/105

Artificial file. MiscellaneousU DPL2/3/106

Third DepositU DPL3

Fourth DepositU DPL4