Reference No:

U DMA/2/4

Dates:

1940s-1980s

Description:

Contains: chain letter including annotation by Philip Larkin and press cutting in envelope dated 14 Dec 1966 addressed to Bill Ruddick at the Department of English Literature of the University of Manchester; menu and place name reading 'Miss Jones' for the 1976 Shakespeare Prize Awards, awarded by Philip Larkin in Hamburg on 20 Apr 1976; invitation, menu and place name reading 'Ms M Jones' for the 1977 Booker Prize for Fiction award dinner held at Claridge's on 23 Nov 1977; invitation and prayer request card relating to the ordination as a deacon of Frederick Quinney Lawson at Gaddesby on 29 Jun 1983; order of service for a service of thanksgiving in memory of Sir John Betjeman held at Westminster Abbey on 29 Jun 1984; University College of Leicester headed notepaper on which is recorded a list of surnames [students of Monica Jones?] next to which are the names of noted writers [assignments?], on the reverse is a list recording a marking schema with grade boundries; University of Leicester BA English examination paper 2, Apr 1962, on reverse is a shopping list; business card reading 'Miss M.M.B. Jones, St Hugh's College, Oxford'; printed draft agenda for the 1953 annual meeting of St Hugh's College Oxford Association of Senior Members; letter from Worcestershire County Council Education Committee to Monica Jones asking whether she will accept a Senior Exhibition for the academic year 1941-1942, 25 Aug 1941; clipping of a recipe for chicory salad; press cutting from The Times Literary Supplement 'Excursions in Double Harness', 8 May 1948; press cutting from Newcastle Evening Chronicle 'Kids in Sunday School Uproar' re Haydon Bridge Methodist Sunday School, 11 Jul 1992; press cutting mounted on board, poem 'Wor Geordie' by Billy [Fineday?], typescript copy of a poem by Wendy Cope titled 'Mr Strugnell' based on Philip Larkin; privately printed broadsheet poem 'St Mary-le-Strand' by John Betjemen, 1981; page torn from congregation programme recording award of honorary Doctor of Letters to Professor John Sutherland by the University of Leicester; press cutting from the Chichester Observer 'Alan Bates put the elements to shame' referencing a celebration of Larkin's poetry; typescript poem by A.R.H. titled 'Urological Department', 4 Jan 1982, in envelope addressed to Monica Jones at Hull Royal Infirmary and stamped Leicester 15 Dec 1986; mansucript poem by Philip Larkin headed 'In An Oxford University Chest Poem about Oxford for Monica', written on University of Leicester headed paper, on reverse Larkin has written two verses of poetry headed 'In Thorburn's Mammals'; copy of typescript text of a talk titled 'Philip's Farewell' [relates to the retirement of Philip Collins, a colleague at Leicester University?], 9 Oct 1982; photocopy of a letter from 'Ann M' to Kingsley Amis, 27 Mar 1985; envelope containing press cutting of obituary for Sir Charles Tennyson, shopping list written on the reverse of the envelope; order of service for W.A. Auden's memorial service held at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, on 27 Oct 1973, enclosed is a note written by Larkin regarding parking on the occasion. Note: Artificial file.

Format:

Archive Item

Extent:

1 file

Language:

Access Conditions:

Access will be granted to any accredited reader

Repository:

Hull University Archives

Collection:

Records of Monica Jones (born Margaret Monica Beal Jones)