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