Letter from Brian Mitchell (General Secretary, Poetry Society) to Philip Larkin

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a) Booklet. Response to The Literature Advisory Panel's recommendations concerning Poetry Society (pp. 9), 1982

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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

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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

Photocopy of report by Michael Holroyd (Arts Council Literature Panel) on the state of the Poetry Society as part of the Arts Council review (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/1

Photocopy of report by Isobel Quigley (Arts Council Literature Panel ) on an event presented by the Poetry Society, a poetry reading of extracts from the Dent book of Evergreen verse (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/2

Correspondence between Charles Osborne (Literature Director, Arts Council) and Philip Larkin about the Poetry Society Working PartyU DPL2/3/69/3

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Brian Mitchell (General Secretary, Poetry Society)U DPL2/3/69/4

Letter from Margharita Laski to Philip Larkin asking him to visit the Poetry SocietyU DPL2/3/69/5

Photocopy of report by Miles Huddleston (Arts Council Literature Panel) on a reading by Peter Bland and Peter Reading at the National Poetry CentreU DPL2/3/69/6

Pamphlet. Organisation of a poetry reading, Pamela Clunies-Ross (Director, National Poetry Secretariat) published by the Poetry SocietyU DPL2/3/69/7

Photocopy of a report by Philip Larkin (Arts Council Literature Panel ) on the Poetry Society (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/8

Photocopy of a report by Catherine Freeman (Arts Council Literature Panel) on a reading by Peter Bland and Peter Reading at the Poetry Society (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/9

Report by David Harsent (Arts Council Literature Panel ) on a reading by Peter Bland and Peter Reading at the Poetry Society (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/10

Agenda item 2(c) of Arts Council of Great Britain Literature Advisory Panel meeting on 14 May 1979 discussing partial devolution of the Poetry Society (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/11

Paper on National Poetry Secretariat, Charles OsborneU DPL2/3/69/12

Correspondence between Brian Mitchell (General Secretary, Poetry Society) and Philip Larkin inviting him to an evening of Stevie Smith readingsU DPL2/3/69/13

Postcard from Charles Osborne (Literature Director, Arts Council) to Philip Larkin reminding him that as many people as possible should attend Poetry Society eventsU DPL2/3/69/14

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Clifford Simmons (Chairman, Poetry Society) thanking him for his hospitalityU DPL2/3/69/15

Photocopy of a report. Working Party on the poetry society, Charles Osborne (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/16

Letter from Robert Gavron to Philip Larkin complaining about the Arts Council s report on the Poetry Society which has resulted in gradual grant reductionU DPL2/3/69/17

Report of a meeting held by the Working Party of Literature Advisory Panel on the Poetry Society, Charles Osborne, (pp. 2) 26 January 1982U DPL2/3/69/18

Photocopy of a report by Philip Larkin (Arts Council Literature Panel ) on the Poetry Society (pp. 2)U DPL2/3/69/19

Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Margharita Laski informing him that the Panel have rejected the advice of Working Party on the Poetry SocietyU DPL2/3/69/20

Letter from Charles Osborne (Literature Director, Arts Council) to Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/69/21

Letter from Brian Mitchell (General Secretary, Poetry Society) to Margharita Laski pointing out inaccuracies in the annex to the minutes of The Literature Advisory Panel's meeting of 11 February 1982U DPL2/3/69/22

Letter from Brian Mitchell (General Secretary, Poetry Society) to Philip LarkinU DPL2/3/69/23

Correspondence between Margharita Laski and Philip Larkin responding to the Poetry Society s response to the Literature Advisory Panel's recommendationsU DPL2/3/69/24

University of Hull memoranda between Philip Larkin and the Book Acquisitions Department asking them to test the Poetry Society BookshopU DPL2/3/69/25

Booklet. Poetry Society Three Year Review 1977/8 - 1980/81, (pp. 24)U DPL2/3/69/26

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