Authors: James Booth
50.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 48.
51.
To his parents, 2 February 1944.
52.
To Eva Larkin, 10 December 1944.
53.
Hartley, pp. 118, 81.
54.
Bridget Mason (née Egerton), personal communication, 1 July 2011.
55.
‘Letter to Bridget Egerton, aged Six’,
AL
32 (October 2011), p. 8.
56.
Ann Thwaite, personal communication, 17 August 2011.
57.
To Eva Larkin, 7 January 1951.
58.
Daily Telegraph
, 11 December 2010.
59.
‘A Conversation with Ian Hamilton’,
FR
, p. 23.
60.
To Eva Larkin, 4 April 1954.
61.
6 August 1955.
LM
, pp. 174–5.
62.
‘An Interview with John Haffenden’,
FR
, 57.
63.
Motion, p. 460.
64.
Interview with
Paris Review
,
RW
, p. 66.
65.
Angela Leighton, personal communication, 1984.
1: Dear Fambly (1922–40)
1.
LM
,p. 106.
2.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 48.
3.
To Sutton, 12–14 April 1943. Not in
SL
.
4.
Autobiographical fragment at the beginning of Workbook 5. The first poetic draft in the workbook is dated 11 November 1953, and this fragment was presumably written immediately prior to this. DPL/1/5/1. Cited in Motion, p. 14.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 48.
7.
Motion, p. 8.
8.
‘These I have loved’,
Journal of the Association of Local Government Financial Officers
10.5 (January 1948), pp. 129–31. DLN/1/38.
9.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 49.
10.
Sydney Larkin obituary cutting. DLN/1/40.
11.
DLN/2/2.
12.
Noel Hughes told Andrew Motion that Sydney entered into correspondence with Schacht, though I have been unable to find any confirmation of this. Motion, p. 12.
13.
DLN/1/34.
14.
21 and 22 August 1927. DLN/1/1.
15.
30 August 1929. DLN/1/1.
16.
19 August 1930. DLN/1/1.
17.
29 August 1931. DLN/1/1.
18.
13 August 1932. DLN/1/1.
19.
James Booth, ‘“Snooker at the Seaside”: The Birthday Walk in Scarborough’,
AL
16 (October 2003), pp. 29–31.
20.
DPL/2/3/63/11. See Sheila Woolf, ‘A Hearty Laugh? Philip Larkin at King Henry VIII School, Coventry’,
AL
28 (October 2009), pp. 15–16, at p. 16.
21.
W. H. Rider, ‘Colin Gunner Recollected’,
AL
13 (April 2002), p. 32.
22.
Introduction to Colin Gunner,
Adventures with the Irish Brigade
,
FR
, pp. 120–1.
23.
‘These I have loved’. DLN/1/38.
24.
1 August 1934. DLN/1/3.
25.
17 August 1936. DLN/1/5.
26.
‘An Interview with John Haffenden’,
FR
, p. 54.
27.
Ibid.
28.
Motion, p. 26.
29.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 47. He may be alluding to King George VI’s celebrated comment: ‘Abroad is bloody.’
30.
DLN/1/7 and DLN/1/8.
31.
DLN/1/8.
32.
Autobiographical fragment in Workbook 5. DPL/1/5/1.
33.
Interview with the
Observer
,
RW
, p. 47.
34.
‘Not the Place’s Fault’,
FR
, p. 7.
35.
‘The young Mr Larkin’, in Anthony Thwaite (ed.),
Larkin at Sixty
(London: Faber & Faber, 1982), p. 21.
36.
‘Not the Place’s Fault’,
FR
, p. 9.
37.
SL
, p. 416.
38.
To Sutton, 9 August 1939. Not in
SL
.
39.
‘Not the Place’s Fault’,
FR
, p. 9.
40.
AWJ
, p. 16.
41.
To Sutton, ‘Friday night’ (1939 or 1940). Not in
SL
.
42.
AWJ
, p. 16.
43.
DLN/1/10–29. Sydney Larkin’s wartime diaries are closed to researchers until 2015.
44.
Motion, p. 12.
45.
Richard Bradford,
First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin
(London: Peter Owen, 2005), p. 25;
The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
(London: Robson Press, 2012), p. 7.
46.
James Booth, ‘Sydney Larkin’s Little Hitler’,
AL
29 (April 2010), p. 27.
47.
Motion, pp. 492–3.
48.
Fred Holland, personal communication, 2011.
49.
Autobiographical fragment. DPL/1/5/1.
50.
To Sutton, 6 September 1939. Reproduced as the front endpaper of
SL
.