File contains the following letters:

1. Letter from Philip Larkin, Pearson Park, Hull, to Pamela Hanley, 9 Oct 1963. Includes reference to knowing he was 'lazy & incompetant' in his Leicester days and 'talked too much too, I expect', Molly, Joanne and Barker still being at Leicester, Miss Bennett having retired, publishing another collection of poems next year 'more depressed & ferocious', invite to look in at the library if Hanley comes to Hull.

2. Letter from Philip Larkin, Pearson Park, Hull, to Pamela Hanley, 12 Mar 1965. Includes reference to poems written by Hanley and his comments on the same, his opinion of what a poem should be, request that she not mention his name if she sends her poem to a publisher, comment on marriage that 'I think of it as a marvellous thing for other people, like going to the take', would be nice to see Hanley if she is passing by Hull.

3. Letter from Philip Larkin, Pearson Park, Hull, to Pamela Hanley, 2 Nov 1965. Includes reference to having written to Dr Michaelis, congratulations on Hanley getting a job, comments on universities getting 'bigger & busier' and 'writing is very far away & has been for the last year or two', working on a jazz piece for the Daily Telegraph, request that Hanley writes again when 'the spirit moves' her, his love of 'the Beatles one' of her poems.

4. Letter from Philip Larkin, University of Hull Library, to Pamela Hanley, 9 Nov 1968. Includes reference to being just back from a long weekend, confirmation that he will be glad to see her on 16 November.

5. Letter from Philip Larkin, Pearson Park, Hull, to Pamela Hanley, 16 Jun 1970. Includes reference to Hanley having sent Larkin some Beckett novels and his opinion of the man as playwright and novelist, six months to be spent at All Souls to finish off the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, completion of the new library extension [at Hull], Larkin to receive an honorary doctorate from Leicester, having seen Maurice Ballard in Loughborough recently, having a new second hand car.

6. Letter from Philip Larkin, All Souls College, Oxford, to Pamela Hanley, 1 Nov 1970. Includes reference to Oxford and 'the old boy knitwork', comments on All Souls, finds his fellow boarders 'too old or too young or too argumentative or something', experiencing confusion over what to include in the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse, comments on Hanley's latest poems, if he ever publishes another collection 'it will be called Contented Grunts from a Gilt Edged Trough', Leicester being changed from when they lived there.

7. Letter from Philip Larkin, Newland Park, Hull, to Pamela Hanley, 13 Aug 1974. Includes reference to having moved house, 'HW' [High Windows] sold out in three weeks, suggestion that Hanley consider submitting work to 'Woman'.

8. Letter from Philip Larkin, Newland Park, Hull, to Pamela Hanley, 22 Jan 1985. Includes reference to St Mary's Aylesbury, illness of Monica Jones and her having moved in with him, he is hardly working now but relies on his deputies, glad to have escaped the Laureateship, discussion of lecterns, hasn't been to Finstock since the funeral, loathing the dark cold winter.

9. Letter from Philip Larkin, Newland Park, Hull, to Pamela Hanley, 15 Aug 1985. Includes reference to convalescing at home, slowly recovering, fells as though he has 'taken a long step into old age', May Sinclair and an admission that he has never read her books, thanks for Hanley's sympathetic remark about 'Aubade'.