Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin telling him about Ted Hughes response to being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry

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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

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

Correspondence between Cecil Day Lewis and Philip Larkin asking him to join the advisory committee awarding Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and then debating suitable candidates for awardU DPL2/3/75/1

Correspondence between John Betjeman, Gillian Mountain (his secretary ) and Philip Larkin inviting him to a luncheonU DPL2/3/75/2

Correspondence between Sir Rennie Maudsley (Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace) and Philip Larkin sending him his expensesU DPL2/3/75/3

Ms. list of candidates for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/75/4

Letter from Jane Osborne (Secretary to Sir Rennie Maudsley, Privy Purse Office) to Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/75/5

Correspondence between Russell Wood (Deputy Treasurer to the Queen) and Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/75/6

Ts list. Philip Larkin s comment sheet on John Heath Stubbs, Elizabeth Jennings, Norman Nicholson, Derek Walcott and Sachaverell Sitwell all candidates for the Queen's Gold Medal AwardU DPL2/3/75/7

Correspondence between Sir Rennie Maudsley (Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace), his Secretary Jane Osborne and Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/75/8

Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin telling him about Ted Hughes response to being awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetryU DPL2/3/75/9

Letter from Elizabeth de Jongh to Philip Larkin forwarding name of Seamus Heaney for the Queen's Gold Medal AwardU DPL2/3/75/10

Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin dissuading him from resigning from the Queen's Gold Medal Award for Poetry CommitteeU DPL2/3/75/11

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Sir Rennie Maudsley (Keeper of Privy Purse, Buckingham Palace) about changes to the awardU DPL2/3/75/12

Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin giving muted praise for Seamus Heaney and Norman NicholsonU DPL2/3/75/13

Correspondence between Sir Rennie Maudsley (Keeper of Privy Purse) and Philip Larkin inviting him to a meeting of Poetry CommitteeU DPL2/3/75/14

Correspondence between Russell Wood and Philip Larkin suggesting that no poet deserves the Queen's Gold Medal Award in 1977U DPL2/3/75/15

Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin praising each others poetryU DPL2/3/75/16

Correspondence between Russell Wood (Privy Purse Office) and Philip Larkin inviting him to a meeting of the Queen's Gold Medal Award for Poetry CommitteeU DPL2/3/75/17

Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin informing him of the award to Norman Nicholson of the Queen's Gold Medal Award for PoetryU DPL2/3/75/18

Letter from Philip Larkin to Sir Rennie Maudslay (Keeper of Privy Purse)U DPL2/3/75/19

Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin suggesting Kingsley Amis for the Queen's Gold Medal Award for PoetryU DPL2/3/75/20

Correspondence between Russell Wood (Privy Purse Office) and Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/75/21

Correspondence between John Betjeman and Philip Larkin asking him whether Basil Bunting should be considered for the Queen's Gold Medal Award for PoetryU DPL2/3/75/22

Philip Larkins voting form for the Queen's Gold medal for PoetryU DPL2/3/75/23

Correspondence between Gillian Davies (Secretary to Deputy Treasurer to the Queen) and Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/75/24

Correspondence between Russell Wood (Privy Purse) and Philip Larkin concerning the 1981 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Award being given to D. J. Enright, and Wood asking Larkin to suggest some names for the 1983 AwardU DPL2/3/75/25

Ts. lists. Philip Larkin s comment sheet on Thom Gunn, Derek Walcott, A. D. Hope, George Mackay Brown and Norman MacCaig.. List of countries.U DPL2/3/75/26

Correspondence between John Parsons (Assistant Treasurer to the Queen) and Philip Larkin asking him to suggest candidates for the Queen's Gold Medal AwardU DPL2/3/75/27

Letters from Ted Hughes to Philip Larkin suggesting that Earle Birney should be considered for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Award and telling him about a healer in CornwallU DPL2/3/75/28

Press cutting. Dispatches from battlefield, John Bayley reviews D J Enright in the Sunday TimesU DPL2/3/75/29

Ms. notes by Philip Larkin on candidates for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Award, 1981 (pp. 3)U DPL2/3/75/30

Postcard from John Betjeman to Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/75/31

Letter from Philip Larkin to Gavin EwartU DPL2/3/75/32

List of poets awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Award, 1934 - 1978U DPL2/3/75/33

Photocopy of the history of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry AwardU DPL2/3/75/34

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