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 DPL2/3/50/1
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
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of Philip Arthur Larkin