Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Josephine Falk (Literature Officer, Arts Council) about the sale of literary manuscripts and meetings of the National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Writers Committee

Papers of Philip Arthur Larkin > Second Deposit > Subject files > File. National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Writers Committee > Correspondence between Philip Larkin and Josephine Falk (Literature Officer, Arts Council) about the sale of literary manuscripts and meetings of the National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Writers Committee

Reference No:: U DPL/2/3/50/1
Dates:: 15 Jan-17 Apr 1976
Description:: Including:

a) Letter from R G Davis-Poynter (Davis Poynter Ltd.) to Charles Osborne sending him a list of Colin McInnes manuscripts, 4 June 1976

b) Carbon copy of a letter to The Times , complaining about the practice of dividing manuscripts for sale, 30 June 1976

c) Press cutting advertising the sale of the original manuscript of Samuel Beckett's first novel Murphy , 1 July 1975

d) Letter from Josephine Falk (Literature Officer, Arts Council) to Nicholas Barker inviting him to a meeting of the National Manuscripts Collection of Contemporary Writers Committee, 1 April 1977

e) Correspondence between D G Vaisey (Keeper of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford) and Charles Osborne applying for an Arts Council grant to purchase a group of early Dorothy L Sayers poems, 25 October 1977- 17 January 1978
Format:: Archive Item
Extent:: 36 items
Access Conditions:: Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:: Hull University Archives
Collection:: Papers of Philip Arthur Larkin